Lead Software Engineer – Java/Python (AWS)

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer & Community Banking in the Data Technology space, you will be part of an agile team building and delivering secure, stable, and scalable technology products. You will drive significant business impact through technical leadership, architecture and design influence, and hands-on delivery across multiple technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its engineering teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Designs and develops secure, high-quality production code; reviews, debugs, and raises the engineering bar through strong code review practices.
• Leads system design and implementation for cloud-native services on AWS, including APIs, standalone services, and event-driven components.
• Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis).
• Establishes measurable validation standards for AI-assisted workflows (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promotes reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/toolchain.
• Applies SDLC toolchain expertise (CI/CD, testing, IaC, observability) to improve reliability, delivery throughput, and operational excellence.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus and contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm-wide frameworks, tools, and practices.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering mission-critical production services with strong contributions to system design, application development, testing, capacity planning and operationalization.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, or Go) with strong AWS experience.
• Strong experience with AWS services to host APIs, run applications, enable inter-application messaging, and implement event-driven services.
• Experience organizing Terraform workspaces and developing Terraform code (infrastructure as code).
• Experience designing and developing microservices and backend services.