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...

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