Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Palo Alto, CA +1 · Corporate Sector

Lead Software Engineer in the Infrastructure Platforms and Foundational Services (IPFS) organization, responsible for enhancing, building, and delivering technology products. The role involves executing creative software solutions, developing secure production code, identifying automation opportunities, leading vendor evaluations, and driving awareness of new technologies. Requires 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering, with proficiency in automation, CI/CD, and agile methodologies. Preferred qualifications include experience with cloud, AI/ML, and the financial services industry.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  4. 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
  5. Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Skills

Required

  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • DevOps
  • Software Engineering
  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • automation
  • continuous delivery
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security

Nice to have

  • cloud
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • mobile
  • financial services industry
  • cloud native experience

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of applied experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Software Engineering
  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability