Lead Software Engineer- Agentic

JobID: 210742553 Category: Software Engineering JobSchedule: Full time Posted Date: 2026-05-01T17:51:52+00:00 JobShift: : 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 Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking division, you will design and build critical technology solutions across Chase AI components-including Chase Agent, Agent Operating Memory, Domain Agents, Agentic Experience Service, and Assurance.

Job Responsibilities * Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to solve complex problems.

* Create secure, high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.

* Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.

* Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets to drive continuous improvement of software applications and systems.

* Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data, using insights to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture.

* Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.

* Adopt and learn new technologies that positively impact agentic solutions.

* Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and operations, to deliver end-to-end solutions.

* Lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote best practices in software engineering.

* Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory requirements in all software solutions.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills * 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years building complex scalable applications or agentic systems.

* Hands-on experience building agentic systems using LLMs/SLMs * Experience setting up and maintaining MCP servers and building MCP-compatible tools/adapters * Proficient in coding in one or more languages: Java, Python; able to jump between Java and Python projects as needed.

* Proficiency building production services with either Spring AI and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Cloud), or Python (FastAPI/Flask), with typed contracts, testing, and packaging.

* Solid AWS background with working knowledge of ECS or EKS, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/CodeBuild). * Strong API design skills (REST/OpenAPI; gRPC and familiarity with observability stacks (e.g., Splunk, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry). * Practical understanding of LLM patterns: function calling/tools, RAG, prompt management, context windows, token budgeting, and safety guardrails.

* Strong testing culture: unit/integration tests, load tests, and evaluation datasets for agents.

* Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

* Experience with agile methodologies and working in fast-paced, iterative development environments.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills * Expertise with distributed orchestration patterns for LLM applications (graph-based flows, retries, fallbacks, guardrails) and secure integration with enterprise tools and data.

* Experience with safe rollout strategies (shadowing, A/B testing, progressive exposure), human-in-the-loop review, and continuous evaluation for quality and safety, including canary rollouts.

* Knowledge of API gateways, service mesh, and multi-region high availability and disaster recovery for mission-critical services.

* Familiarity with data privacy, security best practices, and regulatory compliance in financial services.

* Experience with performance optimization, scalability, and reliability engineering for large-scale systems.

* Ability to evaluate and integrate third-party tools, libraries, and frameworks to accelerate development.

* Demonstrated leadership in technical communities, open source contributions, or industry forums.