Join one of the world's most innovative financial institutions, where your engineering skills will help protect and power technology at a global scale. At JPMorganChase, we invest in our people, our platforms, and our future — offering you the opportunity to grow alongside cutting-edge technology and a team that values collaboration, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
As a Sr Lead Security Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls team in Corporate Technology, you will design and deliver scalable, resilient full-stack solutions that sit at the intersection of security and engineering excellence. You will play a key role in advancing our digital asset custody platform, driving AI-assisted engineering practices, and ensuring our systems are built to the highest standards of reliability and security. This role offers the opportunity to work across a broad technology landscape — from cloud infrastructure to blockchain integrations — while contributing to a team that is shaping the future of secure financial technology.
Job responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, resilient systems using Java or Python, contributing to continual, iterative improvements for product teams through hands-on software solutions, development, and technical troubleshooting
- Develop and operate microservices including API design, service decomposition, and reliability patterns such as timeouts, retries, idempotency, and dead-letter queues
- Build and maintain integrations using AWS services including API Gateway, SQS, SNS, S3, and RDS; troubleshoot production issues across services and infrastructure
- Produce clear design and architecture artifacts — including service boundaries, data flows, sequence diagrams, and architecture decision records — ensuring implementation aligns with design constraints
- Gather, analyze, and synthesize large, diverse data sets to develop visualizations and reporting that drive continuous improvement of software applications and systems; identify hidden problems and patterns in data to improve coding hygiene and system architecture
- Design and implement components of a digital asset custody platform, including signing pipeline services, policy evaluation engines, and chain adapter integrations across EVM and non-EVM networks
- Architect, deploy, and manage scalable applications using AWS cloud services across the full software development lifecycle
- Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices — including AI-assisted code review, refactoring, test strategy acceleration, and incident root-cause analysis — while establishing consistent validation standards for secure coding, peer review, and automated testing
- Apply knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle toolchain capabilities, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation tools, to improve the value realized through automation and delivery speed
- Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in a large corporate environment using one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and agile methodologies including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
- Knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline such as cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or mobile
- Experience with digital asset or financial services platforms, including familiarity with transaction lifecycle, key management concepts, or custody workflows
- Experience architecting and building with AWS cloud services
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools — including coding, code review, test acceleration, and troubleshooting — with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- Experience with blockchain technologies, including public chains such as Ethereum or other EVM-compatible networks
- Experience with advanced CI/CD pipeline design and optimization
- Experience with Terraform scripting and infrastructure-as-code best practices
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About UsWe offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
JPMorganChase San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, CA, United States
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