
Lead Software Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 16 hours ago
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- Not specified USD
- City
- Houston
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer in JPMorganChase Corporate Technology, responsible for designing and delivering trusted, scalable software solutions in an agile environment. As a core technical contributor, you will lead automation frameworks and AI-driven solutions, improve performance testing, and maintain non-functional test suites. You will write secure production code, collaborate within a Scrum team, and drive process improvements across multiple business functions, leveraging distributed systems, cloud platforms, and AI/ML frameworks. Requires 10+ years of software engineering experience and strong leadership in design, development, and operations.
Location: Houston, TX, United States
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job Responsibilities
- Design and develop creative software solutions, using innovative approaches to solve complex technical issues.
- Lead the creation and implementation of automation frameworks and AI-driven solutions to enhance business processes.
- Develop strategies for performance testing and automation to improve software quality and delivery speed.
- Establish and promote best practices in performance testing and automation throughout the organization.
- Write secure, high-quality production code and review/debug code from other team members.
- Help create and maintain Non-Functional test suites.
- Analyze test results, document testing activities, and track software defects.
- Identify and automate solutions for recurring issues to improve system stability.
- Communicate project status clearly and manage priorities when handling multiple tasks.
- Collaborate within a Scrum team, participate in Agile activities, and support a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification in software engineering, with 10+ years of experience.
- Strong system design, application development, and operational stability skills.
- Advanced proficiency in programming languages (Java, Python, C#, etc.)
- Hands-on work with Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and Agentic AI.
- Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face).
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS, Databricks, Snowflake).
- Expertise in microservices, RESTful APIs, and database technologies (relational/NoSQL).
- Familiarity with containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
- Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Blazemeter) and Gremlin Testing.
- Skilled in development and testing tools (JUnit, Groovy, Postman, REST Assured, Eclipse, Maven, Jenkins, IntelliJ).
- Effective communication across teams and management, with a proactive approach to process improvement.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Cloud certification (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Practical cloud-native development experience.
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
- Experience in creating and executing performance and chaos test scripts.
- Experience in or understanding of A/B Testing, Gremlin Testing, Engineering principles.

