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**Lead Software Engineer - Python** at JPMorgan Chase in Wilmington, DE combines driving AI solutions with shaping team processes. Key responsibilities include executing creative tech solutions, developing high-quality code, driving AI-assisted engineering practices, and leading vendor evaluations. Required: Formal software engineering training (3+ years), advanced Python proficiency, and experience with AI-assisted tools. Lead this agile team and enhance market-leading products while ensuring security and scalability.
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Full Job Description
Location: Wilmington, DE, 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 JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Data and Analytics Office, 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
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting for AIenabled applications.
- Develop secure, highquality production code; review and debug SDK and service integrations.
- 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.
- Identify and automate remediation of recurring issues to improve reliability of AI features and services.
- Lead evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams on model capabilities, safety, and integration patterns.
- Lead communities of practice to share prompt engineering, evaluation methods, and SDK best practices.
- Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
- Build and ship AIpowered features using AI (Bedrock or Foundry or Vertex AI), including prompt design, function calling, and SDK/REST integrations (no prior experience required).
- Implement input/output safety (guardrails, moderation) and comprehensive LLM usage logging/monitoring (no prior experience required)..
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
- DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization/orchestration, observability, and cloud platforms.
- Handson experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced proficiency in Python software engineering skills
- 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
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods; strong unit/integration testing discipline.
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and secure coding practices.
- Advanced understanding of CI/CD, application resiliency, and security for AI applications.
- Practical cloudnative experience.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Terraform is a plus




