Senior Principal Software Engineer, Global Customer Platform

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Columbus, OH +1 · Consumer & Community Banking

Senior Principal Software Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase focusing on leading the strategy and development of customer platform technologies, creating novel code solutions, and driving the adoption of technical methods. The role requires deep expertise in building and operating high-throughput data platforms and experience applying AI/ML to enhance engineering outcomes and platform intelligence within a secure, stable, and scalable environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Advises and leads on the strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio
  2. Creates novel code solutions and drives the development of new production code capabilities across teams and functions
  3. Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about technology advancements
  4. Drives adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies
  5. Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions

Skills

Required

  • software engineering
  • technical strategy
  • distributed systems
  • data platforms
  • API
  • event-streaming (Kafka)
  • AI/ML technologies
  • system design
  • application development
  • testing
  • operational stability
  • programming language(s)
  • cloud native
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Engineering
  • Mathematics

Nice to have

  • customer data platforms
  • system-of-record architectures
  • master data management
  • event sourcing
  • CQRS
  • eventual consistency
  • idempotent processing
  • reusable frameworks
  • SDKs
  • platform abstractions
  • observability
  • SLO-driven engineering
  • chaos engineering
  • production reliability
  • financial services
  • data governance
  • privacy
  • compliance requirements
  • mentoring
  • technical standards

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a track record of leading technical strategy and delivering complex distributed systems
  • Deep expertise in building and operating high-throughput, resilient data platforms with strong consistency guarantees, including API and event-streaming (Kafka) architectures
  • Experience applying AI/ML technologies to accelerate engineering outcomes, improve platform intelligence, or drive innovation in data-intensive systems
  • Extensive practical cloud native experience
  • Expertise in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field