Senior Lead Software Engineer

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, plus advanced applied experience
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced Java and TypeScript experience
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools, with the ability to set expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resiliency and security expectations
• Experience coaching senior engineers or leads on compliant AI usage patterns and controls
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud-native experience
• Preferred: experience building UI and UX solutions with React
• Preferred: knowledge of Scala
• Preferred: experience with domain-specific language design and interpretation
• Preferred: knowledge of domain-driven design
• Preferred: knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases

Responsibilities:

• We lead the engineering of cutting-edge solutions in metadata, metamodeling, and distributed systems
• We provide technical guidance and direction to business teams, contractors, and vendors
• We develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others
• We drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
• We establish measurable validation standards, including secure coding, peer review, automated testing, and reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain
• We apply knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle tools, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale
• We drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• We serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• We actively contribute to the engineering community as advocates of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Technologies:

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• Java
• NoSQL
• React
• SQL
• Scala
• Security
• TypeScript
• UX UI Design
• DDD

More:

We are JPMorganChase, a global leader in financial services and a first-class business serving clients with trusted, long-term partnerships. Our Commercial & Investment Bank operates across banking, markets, securities services, and payments in more than 100 countries. You will join our Data Platforms team within the Chief Data & Analytics Office as part of an agile environment focused on building secure, stable, scalable, and market-leading technology products. We value diversity and inclusion, support reasonable accommodations, and offer the opportunity to work on intellectually challenging, cloud-based engineering problems involving full-stack programming, agentic techniques, meta-programming, domain-specific languages, and interpreter design.

last updated 34 week of 2026