Lead Software Engineer - Agentic AI, Java/Python

Lead Software Engineer - Agentic AI, Java/Python 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 - Agentic AI, Java/Python at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investing Banking - Data Analytics Payments Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that delivers trusted technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders to design, drive growth of J.P. Morgan's Data and Analytics solutions and enable data-driven sales growth strategies. You lead hands-on engineering of driving intelligence automation and build agentic AI on NEO, the firm's agent runtime platform for Payments Technology. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for delivering critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities:

Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

Builds and operates multiple agentic solutions on NEO end to end — agent execution and sandboxing (micro-VMs), A2A and MCP integrations, the memory layer (memory nodes), retrieval, and evaluation harnesses

Delivers the full-stack product surface – Typescript/Next.js application on Salt Design System with virtualization at scale.

Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices 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

Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of the software applications and systems

Implements permission-aware, auditable execution for agents, including fine-grained authorization and runtime policy checks

Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies, and mentors Lead and senior engineers

Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

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

Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

Advanced in one or more programming language(s); strong Python required

Experience delivering production React (Next.js) web applications, including real-time UI (SSE/WebSocket) and working within a component/design system

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 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/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

Hands-on experience building LLM-power or agentic systems, including tracing, evaluations, and guardrails

Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning)

In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

Practical cloud native experience; production Kubernetes expected

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

Exposure to LLMs, RAG architectures, vector databases, and embedding-based retrieval systems; Graph RAG a plus

Experience with agent protocols (A2A, MCP) or multi-agent orchestration

Experience with sandboxed/secure code execution (containers and micro-VMs such as Firecracker, Kata, gVisor)

Experience with agent memory (memory nodes, episodic/semantic memory) or graph-backed retrieval

Familiarity with building or running evals for LLM/agent systems

Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)