Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and 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. 

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
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
• 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.
• Develop and maintain overarching resiliency frameworks that development and infrastructure teams can consume via automated product offerings and repeatable patterns. 
• Define and monitor Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for all product components, tracking metrics to identify architectural or procedural gaps.
• Partner with application teams to automate disaster recovery provisioning, scaling, configuration, and monitoring using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Drive resiliency testing scenarios and chaos engineering using native tools like AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) and AWS Resilience Hub to identify vulnerabilities before they impact production
• Partner with SREs to build advanced detection capabilities, leveraging ex-AWS Resilience Hub to assess application resilience and set up proactive CloudWatch alerts.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 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.
• 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 engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud architectures, specifically DR-enabling services like AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Backup, and multi-AZ/multi-region deployments
• Proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, Go, or Bash) and familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

 Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Practical cloud-native experience
• Advanced governance/reporting of DR audit artifacts & resilience maturity scoring