Lead Software Engineer - API Platform

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 & Community Banking - API Marketplace 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.

You will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and enhancing the API Platform that empowers our API developers.

We seek engineers with a broad technical perspective and a passion for solving complex challenges using expertise across multiple disciplines.

In this role, you will manage end-to-end problem-solving, advocate for effective solutions across diverse technology stacks, and help drive significant business value for our customers through robust API offerings.

Job responsibilities


* Brings discipline and creativity to solve business-critical problems, working with tech leads, product managers, and designers to bring outcomes to fruition


* Identifies opportunities to remove technical debt and works to improve the quality of engineering deliverables


* Communicates with stakeholders and is comfortable leading discussions with customers


* Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others


* Drives decisions that influence product design, application functionality, technical operations, and processes, providing leadership grounded in technical expertise and effective communication


* Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus


* Contributes to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle


* 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.


* Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


* Hands-on programming/appl...