Sr Lead Software Engineer - Java Full Stack

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

Senior Lead Software Engineer role focused on driving adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices within a financial services context. The role involves developing secure, high-quality production code, providing technical guidance, and applying knowledge of SDLC tools, including AI-assisted development and automation capabilities. Emphasizes responsible AI use, data sensitivity, and coaching engineers on compliant usage.

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 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.
  4. 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.
  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
  • 5+ years applied experience
  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Containerization(Docker and Kubernetes)
  • Oracle DB
  • React/ReactJS
  • Redux
  • Angular/AngularJS
  • ExtJS
  • JQuery
  • NodeJS
  • Microservices
  • RESTful webservices development
  • WebSockets
  • JMS
  • RabbitMQ
  • AMQP
  • MQ
  • Kafka
  • JUnit
  • Mockito
  • Karma
  • Protractor
  • Jasmine
  • Mocha
  • Selenium
  • Cucumber
  • JDBC/JPBA frameworks
  • Hibernate
  • MyBatis
  • leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
  • setting team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows
  • data sensitivity considerations
  • secure handling of inputs/outputs
  • adherence to resiliency and security expectations
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently

Nice to have

  • Experience working in a financial services environment
  • Technology coach, and leader to help team solve technology problems
  • Understanding of security frameworks / standards

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
  • responsible AI use in engineering workflows
  • coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls