Lead Software Engineer - Agentic AI, Java​/Python

Lead Software Engineer - Agentic AI, Java/Python

Jersey City, NJ, United States

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• Job Identification

• Job Category Software Engineering

• Business Unit Commercial & Investment Bank

• Posting Date 09/11/2026, 06:20 PM

• Locations 575 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US10 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL, 60603, US

• Job Schedule Full time

• Base Pay/Salary Jersey City,NJ $-$Chicago,IL $-$

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Engineering and Architecture 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.

• 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

• Lead a local team of software engineers and applied AI/ML practitioners, driving accountability and engagement within a global organization.

• Collaborate with product and business teams to set technical vision and execute strategic roadmaps for AI-driven software solutions.

• Translate business requirements into robust software and AI/ML specifications, define milestones, and ensure timely delivery using Agile methodologies.

• Architect, design, and develop secure, high-quality production software systems using Java or Python, integrating AI/ML techniques such as LLMs, Generative AI, and coding assistants

• Identify opportunities to automate and remediate recurring issues, improving overall system reliability.

• Design experiments, implement algorithms, validate results, and product ionize performant, scalable, and trustworthy AI/ML solutions.

• 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.

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

• Familiarity with agentic workflows and frameworks (e.g., Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Auto-GPT)

• Advanced proficiency in Java or Python for software system development; strong grasp of software engineering best practices, system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Experience integrating AI/ML techniques into software systems, including familiarity with LLMs, Generative AI, NLP, RAG, AI evals and coding assistants

• Managing and mentoring software engineering or AI/ML teams, with experience as a hands‑on practitioner delivering production‑grade solutions

• 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…