Lead Software Engineer - Full stack at JPMorgan Chase
Jersey City, NJ
$152,000–$215,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Jersey City, NJ
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on infrastructure platform development within a large financial institution. Day-to-day work involves designing and building production-grade software, reviewing code, automating remediation of recurring issues, and evaluating architectural approaches with internal and external teams. The role suits an experienced engineer with a strong infrastructure background, cloud-native skills, and comfort working across the full software development lifecycle in an agile environment.
Senior level · 4+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 19,100 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,000–28,600
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $166,830 (middle half $130,650–$205,970). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title is 'Lead Software Engineer' but the posting carries no explicit seniority level word (Junior/Mid/Senior/Staff/Principal) in the title itself, so advertised seniority is set to Unspecified. The scope — leading communities of practice, driving architectural evaluations, and owning cross-team technical direction — is consistent with a Senior individual contributor.
The role sits within 'Global Technology Infrastructure Platform,' making it genuinely ambiguous between software development (15-1252) and infrastructure/systems administration (15-1244). The emphasis on 'infrastructure development,' production code, and application development tips it toward 15-1252, with 15-1244 as the runner-up.
The required skills section is unusually abstract — it names no specific programming languages, frameworks, or cloud platforms. Only 'infrastructure development,' 'CI/CD,' and 'cloud native experience' are concrete enough to capture as skills. All other requirements are methodologies, soft skills, or generic concepts (SDLC, agile, application resiliency, security) that do not map to named technologies.
The Preferred qualifications section contains no named technologies — it is entirely company boilerplate. No preferred skills were extracted.
The 4+ years figure is stated specifically for 'Infrastructure development' experience, making it both the skill-level years demanded and the role-level overall years minimum.
Compensation is quoted as $152,000–$215,000/year for Jersey City, NJ.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): infrastructure development.
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