Lead Software Engineer

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Data Platform team, youll design and deliver scalable data pipelines, backend services, and infrastructure-as-code that support large-scale revenue and analytics processing.

Job responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade ETL/data pipelines using PySpark, AWS Glue, and Apache Iceberg.
• Develop and operate backend microservices and APIs (Java/Spring Boot, Python).
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code with strong unit and integration test coverage.
• Build and manage infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Optimize data workflows for performance, cost, and reliability.
  Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and product stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Participate in design and code reviews; troubleshoot production issues and drive root-cause fixes.
  Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
• 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of Python or Java, plus solid software design fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, RDS/Aurora).
• Experience building data pipelines and working with SQL and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
• Familiarity with distributed data processing (Spark) and data lake/table formats.
• Proficiency with Git-based workflows and CI/CD practices.
• 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
• Strong testing discipline (unit, integration) and debugging skills.
• Background in financial, revenue, or large-scale analytics data domains.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Apache Iceberg or similar transactional table formats.
• Experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow) and containerization (Docker).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and pipeline tooling (Jenkins, Spinnaker, Terraform).

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