AI Lead Software Engineer

As an AI Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Corporate Technology, you will be a key technical leader on an agile team designing and delivering secure, scalable, high-performing technology solutions. You will partner across product, business, and engineering stakeholders to build strategic AI platforms that enable the firm’s objectives.

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+

• Advanced expertise in object-oriented design, system design, and performance

• Drive architectural decisions and technical direction to improve scalability,

• Build and maintain secure, production-grade services, setting a high bar for

• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, pairing, and actionable feedback

• Implement continuous integration and continuous delivery automation and

• Develop data-intensive services and workflows using Java or Scala, working

• Design and build AI-enabled applications, including retrieval-augmented

generation patterns and agentic workflows, with appropriate evaluation and guardrails

• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering

practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle

toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable, secure,

• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with working knowledge of SQL and modern

• Strong understanding of modern architecture patterns, including

microservices, event-driven design, and application programming interface-first approaches

• Experience building and operating solutions on public cloud platforms (for

example, Amazon Web Services), including containerization and orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes)

• Experience implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery

pipelines and Infrastructure as Code practices to improve release safety and speed

• Practical experience with application programming interface design and

integration patterns (for example, REST and GraphQL), including security and performance considerations

• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted

software development tools (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 engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

• Experience with modern data and search technologies (for example,

• Experience building generative AI solutions, including retrieval-augmented

generation architecture, orchestration frameworks (for example, LangChain or LlamaIndex), and evaluation practices

• Experience creating reusable agent skills, libraries, or patterns that

• Experience working across hybrid technology ecosystems using cloud services,

Databricks, and Kubernetes-based platforms

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.

These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You’ll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

We have an exciting opportunity to advance your career and drive meaningful impact by pushing the limits of modern engineering.