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Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
Job responsibilities
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
About Us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans
About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Leads design and implementation of complex features and services across upstream/downstream services; define API contracts, versioning, and backward compatibility.
- Owns production readiness and operational excellence: define SLOs/SLIs, drive observability (logs, metrics, traces), manage incidents, and reduce MTTR through durable fixes and runbooks.
- Champions secure by default and resilient designs: timeouts, retries with exponential backoff/jitter, circuit breakers, bulkheads, idempotency, graceful degradation.
- Conducts and facilitate design reviews and consult with Architecture team for enterprise alignment with partner teams to minimize integration risk.
- Writes secure, concise, high quality production code and review/debug code written by others across backend and frontend.
- Engages in pair programming, rigorous code reviews, and reliable estimation; maintain performance budgets and accessibility standards for user facing experiences.
- Applies database rigor across SQL/NoSQL: schema design, indexing, query tuning, and caching to improve latency and throughput
- Integrates firm approved, privacy safe AI assistants into day to day development to accelerate test generation, documentation, refactoring, and static analysis triage-always with human in the loop review and CI quality gates.
- Establishes guardrails and governance for AI use: prompt hygiene, secrets/PII protection, logging/provenance for generated code, and objective acceptance criteria: lint clean, coverage thresholds, Static App Security Tests/Dynamic App Security Tests, performance checks.
- Defines and track measurable outcomes from AI assisted workflows: developer throughput, review cycle time, defect density without compromising security or reliability.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10 years of applied experience, including leading delivery for a squad or stream of work.
- B.S. Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
- Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot development, SQL, SNS, SQS, and Kafka
- AWS and cloud-native services (e.g., ECS/EKS/Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB/CassandraDB, S3, CloudWatch, IAM)
- Proficiency in Javascript, HTML 5, CSS3
- Hands-on experience in system design, RESTful JSON API design, micro services, application development, testing strategy, and operational stability within large, distributed corporate environments.
- Hands-on experience across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including CI/CD pipelines automated testing
- Understanding of security and resiliency: OSWASP Top 10, 0Auth2/OIDC, secrets management, encryption in transit/at rest; resilient integration patterns: timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads.
- Ability to lead design reviews, guide architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.
- AI-led development: operational experience integrating approved AI assistants into development workflows with governance, human review, and measurable outcomes.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in .NET/C#
- Experience in Typescript and React
- Travel or hospitality domain experience, especially with booking flows, inventory consistency, and resilient integrations.
- Experience introducing evaluation frameworks for AI-assisted development or AI features (offline metrics, canarying, telemetry, drift detection).
- Familiarity with frontend performance and accessibility practices.
About Us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans
About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.
Salary : $152,000 - $215,000