Lead Software Engineer Java Full stack, Agentic AI
Houston, TX - USA
Job Summary
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Global Banking Technology youare 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
- 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.
- 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 leading designing and building solutions .
- Expertise in Java Spring Core Spring Boot REST APIs JPA and relevant microservices framework.
- Expertise in JavaScript Typescript React and popular test framework for UI
Expert-level experience with AI-assisted/agentic development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot and Claude Code) to accelerate full-stack deliveryleveraging AI for scaffolding refactoring debugging documentation code review and test generation (unit/integration/E2E incl. Playwright) while enforcing secure usage (no secrets security/license checks SDLC compliance) and using agentic workflows (plan build test validate) with strong human oversight.
- Experience practicing Spec-Driven Development: translating business requirements into clear functional/non-functional specs (API contracts UI acceptance criteria test cases) and driving implementation from those specs
- 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
- Familiarity with log/metric collection and monitoring technologies like Grafana AppDynamics and Splunk Hands-on experience with building CI/CD pipelines using Git Maven Jenkins SonarQube and Fortify.
- Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Oracle (including schema design performance tuning and SQL optimization).
Experience with event-driven processing using Kafka Proficiency in Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Test Driven Development (TTD) with hands-on experience in test automation frameworks like Junit Mockito Playwright and Cucumber.
- Agile software development experience adhering to a product operating model.
- Experience in building enterprise solution focused on Data Analytics will be beneficial.
- Experience in AI agentic application development leveraging GitHub Copilot/Copilot agents to accelerate delivery while maintaining strong human oversight and SDLC compliance.
- Experience practicing Spec-Driven Development using GitHub Copilot translating requirements into clear specs (API contracts UI acceptance criteria test cases) and driving implementation from those specs.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
About Company
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans ov ... View more