Lead Software Engineer
Company: JPMorganChase
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Description 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
Consumer and Community Banking - NBA Delivery Platform team, 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
Leads the design, development, and evolution of a highly scalable,
reliable GraphQL platform with exceptional performance and high
availability across multiple teams and services. Drives platform
strategy and technical roadmap, making design decisions that
balance current needs with long-term scalability and
maintainability. Establishes and champions observability,
monitoring, and alerting standards across the platform, designing
proactive solutions to detect and resolve issues before they impact
users. Leads the development of automation strategies for CI/CD
pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices, creating reusable
patterns and frameworks that accelerate delivery across engineering
teams. Designs and oversees intuitive self-service developer
experiences, including APIs, tooling, documentation, and
integration patterns that enable teams to adopt platform services
independently. Mentors and guides engineers across the
organization, conducting technical reviews, providing architectural
guidance, and fostering a culture of engineering excellence. Drives
continuous improvement in platform reliability, performance, and
developer productivity through metrics-driven insights and
innovation. 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 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 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 of
applied experience Proven leadership experience with leading
technical initiatives and driving architectural decisions across
teams. Advanced in one or more programming language(s) in scripting
and automation using Typescript, Go, Rust, Python, or similar
languages. Deep hands-on experience with Terraform and
infrastructure-as-code practices for managing complex,
multi-environment infrastructure. Advanced knowledge of
containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker,
Kubernetes, and service mesh architectures. Strong expertise in
GraphQL architecture, schema design, and RESTful API principles,
with experience designing and implementing API standards and strong
architectural thinking, with proven ability to decompose complex
problems, evaluate trade-offs, and make pragmatic technical
decisions. Extensive experience designing and implementing CI/CD
pipelines, build automation, and deployment strategies.
Expert-level proficiency with version control workflows
(Git/Bitbucket) and distributed systems monitoring using tools such
as Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace, or CloudWatch. Proficiency in
automation and continuous delivery methods Advanced understanding
of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and
Security In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and
their IT systems Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Production experience architecting, building, and scaling GraphQL
platforms serving multiple teams or business units. Extensive
experience with AWS cloud architecture and services, including
architectural patterns for high availability and disaster recovery.
Advanced knowledge of AWS services including EKS, ECS Fargate, IAM,
VPC design, CloudWatch, X-Ray, ElastiCache-Redis, RDS Aurora
Postgres, MSK, and KMS. Preferred proficiency in at least one of
the following modern programming language (Java, Bash, Groovy, or
similar), with ability to review code and provide technical
guidance. Proven track record designing and implementing
comprehensive observability solutions (metrics, logging, tracing,
alerting) and automating complex CI/CD workflows using Jenkins,
Spinnaker, or similar platforms. Experience with GraphQL
Federation, schema governance, entity resolution, distributed
architecture patterns, and developer tooling ecosystems. Experience
leading platform migrations, large-scale refactoring efforts, or
greenfield platform initiatives. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT:
This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is
contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction
history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.
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