Senior Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Seattle, WA +1 · Corporate Sector

Senior Lead Software Engineer for JPMorgan Chase's CDAO AI/ML Data Platform team, focusing on enhancing, building, and delivering technology products. The role involves providing technical guidance, developing secure code, influencing product design, and driving the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes. Requires strong core engineering skills, experience with enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development tools, and a deep understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
  2. Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
  3. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  4. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  5. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Strong core engineering skills: hands‑on coding and system design for modern enterprise systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Rust, Java, Go, C++
  • Proven track record building and operating 24x7, tier‑1 online services.
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (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 senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with open‑source projects in the OLAP/data stack: Apache DataFusion, DuckDB, Apache Arrow Flight SQL.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-assisted engineering practices
  • AI-assisted code review/refactoring
  • test acceleration
  • release readiness
  • incident/root-cause analysis
  • AI-assisted development and automation capabilities
  • responsible AI use in engineering workflows
  • data sensitivity considerations
  • secure handling of inputs/outputs
  • adherence to resiliency and security expectations
  • coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls