Senior Lead Software Engineer

Location: LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom

Introductory Marketing Language:
Join us and be at the forefront of technology innovation, where your expertise drives impactful solutions. You’ll collaborate with talented professionals in a dynamic, agile environment that values your ideas and encourages growth. At JPMorganChase, we empower you to push boundaries, develop your skills, and make a real difference. Experience a culture that celebrates diversity, fosters inclusion, and supports your career journey.

Job Summary:
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in the Corporate Sector, you will play a pivotal role in an agile team dedicated to building and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. You will leverage your deep technical expertise to solve complex challenges across multiple technologies and applications. Your leadership will drive business impact, foster innovation, and ensure the stability and scalability of our solutions. You’ll help shape our team culture and contribute to our mission of delivering excellence.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end engineering delivery across the full software development lifecycle for modern application platforms.
• Leverage technologies such as Java, React, AWS, and related cloud-native services and tooling.
• Own the “you build it, you own it” model—design, build, test, release, and support solutions, ensuring performance and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to perform root cause analysis, implement production changes, and drive resiliency improvements.
• Drive operational excellence by enhancing observability, alerting, automation, and post-incident reviews.
• Mentor and guide engineers through coaching, design and code reviews, and best-practice reinforcement.
• Drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery speed.
• Apply strong knowledge of the SDLC/toolchain and AI-assisted automation to scale repeatable patterns and improve productivity.
• Develop and support AI/ML-enabled approaches for troubleshooting and incident resolution.
• Act as a collaborative team player and engineering leader, communicating clearly and coordinating effectively.

 

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience (follow local country guidance as applicable).
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience leading the use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools, with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling, and compliance with resiliency and security standards.
• Ability to independently solve design and functionality problems.
• Practical experience with cloud-native technologies.

 

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience coaching senior engineers or leads on compliant AI usage patterns and controls.
• Advanced applied experience in software engineering (as applicable by region).
• Familiarity with AI/ML-enabled troubleshooting and incident resolution approaches.
• Experience driving strategic change and continuous improvement within engineering teams.

 

If you’re ready to make an impact and grow your career in a supportive, innovative environment, we invite you to join us at JPMorganChase.

 

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

About the Organization

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success. Drive innovation and lead engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable technology solutions that shape the future of our business.