What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python/React/AI position at JPMorgan Chase?
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As a Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python/React/AI at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology Digital Document Management Team, 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
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
- Experience leading development effort, developers and providing full end to end solutions
- Experience with ReactJS/AngularJS or similar UI technologies
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java/J2EE, Python
- Hands on experience AI/ML based tools Open AI, Claude, Gemini, Copilot etc.
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods e.g. Jenkins
- Hands on with relational databases e.g. Oracle or PostGreSQL & No-SQL DBs - MongoDB
- Agile based software development experience
- Demonstrated proficiency in software development using cloud (AWS, Kubernetes or Azure), artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.)
- A thinker of good architecture, design, resiliency and stability in the software
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in financial services, especially investment banking or credit risk operations
- Expertise in agentic AI frameworks, prompt optimization, and fine-tuning SLMs
- Familiarity with distributed computing, data sharing, and DDP training
- Experience in design/code reviews and mentoring teams