Lead Software Engineer - Java/python/react/ai

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Wilmington, DE +1 · Corporate Sector

Lead Software Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase, focusing on enhancing and building technology products within the Digital Document Management Team. The role involves executing software solutions, developing production code, leading evaluation sessions, and driving awareness of new technologies. Requires experience in Java/Python/ReactJS, cloud platforms, AI/ML tools, and agile development. Preferred qualifications include financial services experience and familiarity with agentic AI frameworks.

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

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Experience leading development effort, developers and providing full end to end solutions
  • Experience with ReactJS/AngularJS or similar UI technologies
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java/J2EE, Python
  • Hands on experience AI/ML based tools Open AI, Claude, Gemini, Copilot etc.
  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods e.g. Jenkins
  • Hands on with relational databases e.g. Oracle or PostGreSQL & No-SQL DBs - MongoDB
  • Agile based software development experience
  • Demonstrated proficiency in software development using cloud (AWS, Kubernetes or Azure), artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.)
  • A thinker of good architecture, design, resiliency and stability in the software

Nice to have

  • Experience in financial services, especially investment banking or credit risk operations
  • Expertise in agentic AI frameworks, prompt optimization, and fine-tuning SLMs
  • Familiarity with distributed computing, data sharing, and DDP training
  • Experience in design/code reviews and mentoring teams

What the JD emphasized

  • AI/ML based tools
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • agentic AI frameworks