Location: Wilmington, DE, United States

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Java/Python/React/AI at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology Digital Document Management Team, 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 firms business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience leading development effort, developers and providing full end to end solutions
• Experience with ReactJS/AngularJS or similar UI technologies
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Java/J2EE, Python
• Hands on experience AI/ML based tools Open AI, Claude, Gemini, Copilot etc. 
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods e.g. Jenkins
• Hands on with relational databases e.g. Oracle or PostGreSQL & No-SQL DBs - MongoDB 
• Agile based software development experience
• Demonstrated proficiency in software development using cloud (AWS, Kubernetes or Azure), artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.)
• A thinker of good architecture, design, resiliency and stability in the software

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in financial services, especially investment banking or credit risk operations
• Expertise in agentic AI frameworks, prompt optimization, and fine-tuning SLMs
• Familiarity with distributed computing, data sharing, and DDP training
• Experience in design/code reviews and mentoring teams

Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team