Software Engineer III - Agentic AI, Java/Python

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Software Engineer III - Agentic AI, Java/Python at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Data Analytics Payment Team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders to design, drive growth of JPMorgan Chase’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 3+ 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)
• 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…