Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack - Java, React, AWS
Company: JPMC
Location: Chicago, IL, United States
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-28
About this role
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 [insert LOB or sub LOB], 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
- **Lead the creation of an AI-first Developer Portal experience**: define architecture patterns for agent-ready workflows, tool/action schemas, context assembly, and safe execution.
- **Build and operate AI-enabled support experiences** (assistant + workflow automation) with contextual understanding of client/workspace state, integration progress, and troubleshooting signals.
- **Design and deliver secure external API platform capabilities**: contract-first API design (OpenAPI), versioning strategy, backward compatibility, idempotency, pagination, consistent error models, and developer usability.
- **Own authentication and credential workflows for external integrations**, including patterns for certificate handling, credential rotation, and secure onboarding journeys.
- **Establish engineering standards for AI + automation in production**: evaluation and test strategy, release gating, telemetry, audit logging, and incident response for AI/tooling systems.
- **Remain hands-on (~50%)** through critical-path coding, architecture reviews, code reviews, debugging, and performance/resiliency improvements.
- **Drive cross-functional, federated delivery** by partnering with API owners, security, and shared services to deliver a unified client experience despite distributed backend ownership.
- **Coach and develop engineers**: set expectations for quality, delivery discipline, des...