Job Description

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 Full Stack Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Infrastructure Platforms team- Data Center Services team, you will be an integral part of an agile team that enhances, builds, and delivers trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will take ownership of technical delivery end-to-end while actively engaging with stakeholders to translate business needs into well-planned, high-quality software solutions. This role demands a self-starter who thrives in a collaborative environment, can manage competing priorities, and drives engineering excellence across the team.

Job responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deliver full stack software solutions across frontend (React) and backend (Node.js/TypeScript, Python) services, applying strong problem-solving skills to break down complex technical challenges.
• Engage directly with stakeholders and product owners to gather requirements, clarify scope, and ensure technical solutions align with business objectives.
• Lead development planning activities including backlog refinement, sprint planning, effort estimation, and technical roadmap definition, ensuring the team delivers incrementally and predictably.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review peers' work to maintain consistency, reliability, and adherence to engineering standards.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve the overall operational stability of applications and systems.
• Maintain clear and organized documentation including technical designs, architecture decisions, and runbooks, ensuring knowledge is shared and accessible.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI code review assistants) to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed, and champion their effective adoption within the team.
• Participate in communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of modern tooling, patterns, and best practices.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering a team culture of continuous improvement, diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience delivering production software.
• Hands-on practical experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle, including system design, application development, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and operational support.
  Strong proficiency in frontend development with React (including state management and testing with Jest/React Testing Library).
• Advanced knowledge in backend development with Node.js and TypeScript, building RESTful APIs.
• Skilled in writing and maintaining comprehensive unit, functional, and integration tests.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business requirements into actionable technical plans.

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, prioritize effectively, and work autonomously with minimal oversight.

• Comfort using AI-powered tools to augment development workflows and an openness to evolving best practices around AI-assisted engineering.
• Experience with databases such as MySQL or similar.
• Exposure to cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with API documentation standards such as OpenAPI/Swagger.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with other modern frontend frameworks (e.g., Angular).
• Experience with Python for backend services or tooling.
• Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma for collaborating on UI/UX requirements is highly desirable.
• Experience with traditional AI/ML, such as predictive analysis, is highly desirable.
• Experience working collaboratively in agile teams and participating in Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint planning); experience facilitating or running ceremonies is a plus.