Senior Lead Software Engineer

Join a high-performance agile team maintaining and improving governance technology products.

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology Office, you will contribute to a high-performance agile team designing and delivering trusted, mission critical distributed technology products in a secure, reliable, and scalable way.

The access governance engineering team is maintaining and enhancing an access control system that is an integral part of business operations at JP Morgan Chase. Operations within this system are complex and involve collaboration across multiple teams on different time schedules.

We are looking for passionate engineers with broad exposure to multiple technologies, driven by the desire to learn, to understand, to invent, and to push boundaries. We use agile methodology in our development practice. We strive to deliver great software that meets or exceeds actual business and regulatory requirements. We work in a technically diverse ecosystem using a mixture of vendor products, open-source products, and custom in-house solutions.

Job responsibilities

• Decompose technical problems and build loosely coupled, highly cohesive solutions.
• Implement solutions with an eye for detail and a passion for quality code.
• Contribute to a team culture of mutual respect and active ownership.
• Be a constant learner who is ready to question the status quo and to solve problems creatively.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Great verbal and written communication skills
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and programming skills
• Demonstrated experience in Java development and with distributed computing
• Experience with prompt engineering
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and control s.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Advanced knowledge of refactoring techniques, domain-driven design, and object-oriented design patterns; experience evolving legacy codebases safely.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed services and event driven architectures.
• Experience with GoLang or Rust programming languages.
• Experience with behavior driven development test tools such as Cucumber.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.


We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.


We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.


JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

Base Pay/Salary
Jersey City,NJ $171,000.00 - $260,000.00 / year