Lead Software Engineer - AI Platforms

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Houston, TX +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead Software Engineer for AI Platforms at JPMorgan Chase, focusing on building and enhancing AI-driven insights and workflow automation within Global Banking. The role involves designing and implementing complex software components, building agentic capabilities using the Smart SDK, developing RAG pipelines, writing secure production code, and driving operational excellence. It also includes engineering data and search solutions, contributing to cloud-native engineering on AWS, and participating in technical evaluations. The position emphasizes the use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and responsible AI use.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement complex software components across backend services, APIs, and UI experiences using Java, Python, and React, applying sound engineering judgment and pragmatic architecture.
  2. Build and refine agentic capabilities using the Smart SDK, including tool integration, orchestration patterns, and safety/reliability guardrails suitable for production use.
  3. 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.
  4. Develop and optimize RAG pipelines end-to-end (ingestion, chunking, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, prompt/response patterns), improving relevance, latency, and robustness with OpenSearch and continuous measurement.
  5. Engineer data and search solutions using PostgreSQL (schema design, migrations, query tuning) and OpenSearch (indexing strategies, query relevance tuning) to support AI and analytics workflows

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Strong hands-on expertise in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture, building secure, high-quality, production-grade systems.
  • Proficiency with AWS, Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, and modern developer tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
  • 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
  • Databases: proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB, Redis, etc.), and GraphQL.
  • Containerization: experience with Docker and container orchestration (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes).
  • Demonstrated experience developing, debugging, and maintaining software in a large corporate environment using one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
  • Demonstrable ability to write high-quality code in one or more languages, with strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
  • Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
  • Demonstrated expertise with monitoring/observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch) and proven capability to lead high-performing teams by influence—driving innovation, maintaining strong team health, and owning the end-to-end performance cycle

Nice to have

  • Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support.
  • Exposure to agile engineering practices including CI/CD, application resiliency, and secure engineering.

What the JD emphasized

  • Build and refine agentic capabilities using the Smart SDK, including tool integration, orchestration patterns, and safety/reliability guardrails suitable for production use.
  • 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

Other signals

  • building scalable and resilient services
  • engineering secure data flows
  • integrating seamlessly with the tools bankers rely on
  • turn complex client, deal, and market data into trusted insights and outputs
  • operationalize them across downstream systems
  • accelerate execution
  • strengthen risk discipline
  • elevate the day-to-day experience