Sr Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Lead Software Engineer role focused on enhancing and delivering technology products within JPMorgan Chase's Commercial & Investment Bank Research Technology space. The role involves providing technical guidance, developing secure production code, influencing product design, and acting as a subject matter expert. A key aspect is driving the adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while ensuring responsible AI use and validation of AI outputs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  2. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  4. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  5. Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 15 years applied experience
  • Write maintainable & testable code in Java and/or Python
  • Experience working in Unix
  • Defect Management (JIRA or equivalent)
  • Build Cloud Native applications from a domain driven design and micro-services architecture perspective supporting multiple API versions
  • Knowledge of cloud concepts regarding data storage and data processing
  • Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts
  • Collaborate to design solutions including conceptual, logical and physical data models
  • Participate & effectively contribute in scrum ceremonies with the product owner and scrum team
  • 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
  • Experience with Test driven development, Continuous Integration and Deployment practices and tools (Jenkins, Git-Stash)

Nice to have

  • Experience working on Databricks/Snowflake
  • Experience in building Data Lakes using AWS and Hands-on experience in AWS Glue, AWS KMS etc.
  • Experience in Spark leveraging Python or in-depth experience in Java
  • Experience in writing SQL queries

What the JD emphasized

  • 15 years applied experience
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows