Lead Software Engineer

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Data Platform team, you'll design and deliver scalable data pipelines, backend services, and infrastructure-as-code that support large-scale revenue and analytics processing.

Job responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade ETL/data pipelines using PySpark, AWS Glue, and Apache Iceberg.

• Develop and operate backend microservices and APIs (Java/Spring Boot, Python).

• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code with strong unit and integration test coverage.

• Build and manage infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Terraform/CloudFormation).

• Optimize data workflows for performance, cost, and reliability.

Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and product stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions.

• Participate in design and code reviews; troubleshoot production issues and drive root-cause fixes.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Strong proficiency in at least one of Python or Java, plus solid software design fundamentals.

• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, RDS/Aurora).

• Experience building data pipelines and working with SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).

• Familiarity with distributed data processing (Spark) and data lake/table formats.

• Proficiency with Git-based workflows and CI/CD practices.

• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (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.