Lead Full Stack Software Engineer - Palo Alto

Salary: $61,000 - 101,000 per year Requirements:

• We require formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, along with 5+ years of applied experience.
• We need proven full stack engineering capability across frontend and backend delivery, with the ability to work independently throughout the SDLC.
• We require strong proficiency in Python, plus experience building microservices and automation frameworks.
• We need working knowledge of JavaScript for tooling, UI, and integrations, along with strong React experience building production-grade web applications.
• We require hands-on experience deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes, including deployments, services, scaling, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• We require hands-on experience with API gateways, Kafka, and event-driven architectures.
• We need demonstrated experience using approved AI-assisted software development tools effectively, with the ability to set expectations for validating AI output for correctness, performance, and security.
• We require strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resilience and security expectations.
• We need experience coaching engineers on safe and compliant adoption of AI-assisted practices.
• We require experience with Apache Airflow for DAG authoring, dependency design, failure handling, and operational support.
• We need experience with distributed databases or SQL data stores, plus working knowledge of CockroachDB or similar distributed SQL systems.
• We require proven ability to support observability and operations through log- and metric-based troubleshooting and performance tuning using tools such as Splunk and Grafana.
• We need experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment using modern programming languages and database query languages.
• We require experience with CI/CD, automated unit and integration testing, observability, and application security basics.
• We need demonstrated technical leadership as a senior individual contributor, including leading designs, driving delivery, and influencing across teams.
• Preferred: experience designing and delivering high-scale systems with high throughput, low latency, multi-service architectures, and capacity planning.
• Preferred: strong experience in production readiness practices such as SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alert tuning, runbooks, and incident management.
• Preferred: experience with agentic AI frameworks and model-to-tool integration patterns, including prompt and tool design, structured outputs, and evaluation or monitoring.
• Preferred: experience building robust CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes deployments with testing strategies, quality gates, and safe delivery patterns.
• Preferred: experience implementing distributed system resiliency patterns such as rate limiting, retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency.
• Preferred: familiarity with secure software delivery practices, including threat modeling, secrets management, least privilege, and supply chain controls.

• We execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, approaching problems in ways that go beyond routine methods.
• We own end-to-end full stack delivery across frontend with React and TypeScript, backend Python services, data and workflow services with Apache Airflow, and database work with CockroachDB data modeling.
• We design and deliver scalable, highly available services and user experiences for large-scale applications, making architecture decisions that improve throughput, latency, reliability, and operability.
• We build and maintain cloud-native deployments on Kubernetes, including configuration, scaling strategies, and operational readiness such as health checks, rollouts, rollback planning, and capacity considerations.
• We drive monitoring, observability, and performance tuning across the stack using tools such as Splunk and Grafana, and we lead root-cause analysis and remediation.
• We promote enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational results, while maintaining consistent validation standards and encouraging reusable team patterns.
• We apply knowledge of the SDLC toolchain, including authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to increase the value delivered through automation.
• We identify opportunities to remove or automate the remediation of recurring issues to strengthen the overall stability of applications and systems.
• We lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to assess architectural designs, technical credentials, and fit within our systems and information architecture.

• Agentic AI
• AI
• Airflow
• API
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• CockroachDB
• Frontend
• Grafana
• Incident Management
• Support
• JavaScript
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Network
• Python
• React
• SQL
• Security
• Splunk
• TypeScript
• Web
• microservices
• UX UI Design
• Fullstack

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We are JPMorganChase, a global financial institution with more than 200 years of history, delivering innovative financial solutions to consumers, small businesses, and major corporate, institutional, and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. This Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack role sits within our Enterprise Technology - Network Services Team and is a hands-on opportunity for an experienced engineer to help build secure, stable, scalable technology products. We offer a competitive total rewards package, with pay based on role, experience, skills, and location, along with benefits that may include comprehensive health care coverage, wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching. We value diversity and inclusion, provide reasonable accommodations where needed, and operate as an equal opportunity employer. The role is also subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and our Corporate Technology team supports applications and technology services across our corporate functions and controls agenda.

last updated 39 week of 2026