Location: Houston, TX, United States

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Prime Finance 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 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
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Strong proficiency in Python, backend API with the ability to write clean, scalable, and production-ready code

   

• Strong in Database - SQL and strong in designing Architecture
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively within cross-location teams, bridging business and technology stakeholders to achieve shared organizational goals.

• A strong sense of ownership demonstrated through delivering measurable business impact, navigating obstacles, and driving work through to completion within a broader developer community sharing a common technology and codebase.

   

• A passion for fostering an innovative culture, committing to continuous learning across technical skills, business acumen, and personal effectiveness, while mentoring and coaching junior engineers.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies, including requirements elicitation, stakeholder relationship management, and end-to-end ownership of deliverables from concept through to production.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

•  In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

   

   

• Hands-on experience with Agentic AI programming and a genuine passion for prompt engineering and agentic-based design patterns.
• Proficiency in AWS services or demonstrated exposure to AWS 

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