Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Athena

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top‑note technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem‑solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering and application development and 10+ years applied experience
• Strong Proficiency in the Python programming language
• Prompt based engineering and Agentic AI workflows
• Passionate about prompt engineering and agentic programming to automate our development solutions
• Ownership of work, having measured business impact, overcome obstacles and take it through to completion, working as part of this team and collaborating with a much bigger community of developers sharing the technology and code base
• Knowledge of industry‑wide technology trends and best practices
• Passionate about building an innovative culture, continuous learning in technical aptitude, business understanding and personal effectiveness whilst coaching modern junior engineers
• Understanding of Agile development methodologies, responsible for elucidating and agreeing requirements, building relationships with business users, and taking ownership of deliverables all the way to the production environment.

• Familiarity with modern front‑end technologies (Java and React)
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Experience using Athena