Principal Software Engineer

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Bank Technology team, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to promote best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firm's portfolios.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of mission-critical hybrid cloud systems.
• Directly contribute to coding and solution development, setting a high technical standard.
• Oversee multiple engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business and technology goals.
• Champion best practices in software engineering, security, and risk management.
• Conduct code reviews and mentor senior engineers and dev leads.
• Present technical strategies and project updates to senior stakeholders.
• Prioritize initiatives, balancing urgent needs with long-term strategic objectives.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, integrity, and continuous improvement.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 10+ years experience designing and building hybrid cloud solutions.
• Mastery of coding in enterprise-grade languages (Java or Python preferred).
• Expertise in transactional systems, analytics platforms, and cloud-native technologies.
• Strong background in risk management, compliance, and secure software development.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Proven ability to work with dev leads and senior stakeholders.
• Action-oriented, decisive, drives results systematically.
• Skilled at assessing risk and making decisions with a holistic, big-picture perspective.
• Demonstrates a can-do attitude and leads by example.
• Detail-oriented, able to distinguish between important and urgent tasks.
• Prioritizes helpfulness, mentorship, and team development.
• Acts with integrity.