Principal iOS Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer - iOS

We’re looking for a tech leader ready to take their career to new heights. Join the ranks of top talent at one of the world’s most influential companies. 

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking Digital Technology team, you provide deep engineering expertise and work across agile teams to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your deep expertise to consistently challenge the status quo, innovate for business impact, lead the strategic development behind new and existing products and technology portfolios, and remain at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances. 

Job responsibilities 

• Advise and lead on the strategy and development of multiple products, applications, and technologies across a portfolio of iOS and Android based Mobile applications 

• Own end-to-end mobile architecture for iOS, setting patterns and standards that scale across teams and apps.
• Lead by example with 60%+ hands-on coding and 40% leadership/mentorship, including guiding squads on ways of working and operating.
• Define and evolve testing strategies and quality gates for high-scale mobile apps.
• Partner directly with Apple and Google to evaluate and adopt the latest platform capabilities and technologies.
• Act as an AI enablement leader for mobile, shaping AI architecture and integrations that deliver tangible user value.
• Serve both external and internal users at massive scale (apps seeing on the order of 10M+ daily interactions).

• Create novel code solutions and drive the development of new production code capabilities across teams and functions 

• Translate highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive the firm’s innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about technology advancements 

• Provide architectural direction and guidance for current and future state Mobile platform engineering efforts 

• Drive adoption and implementation of technical methods in specialized fields in line with the latest product development methodologies for mobile platforms 

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience

• 15+ years total software engineering experience, with significant tenure in iOS development and mobile architecture leadership.

• Prior experience leading teams; comfortable stepping back into an IC-oriented Principal role while still providing technical leadership.
• Expert-level Swift/Objective‑C and iOS frameworks; strong command of mobile architecture patterns (e.g., MVVM, VIPER, Clean Architecture), performance optimization, and secure app design.
• Proven track record implementing robust testing strategies (unit, snapshot, UI, integration), CI/CD for mobile, and release governance.
• Demonstrated work with platform partners and adoption of emerging OS features and SDKs.
• AI-heavy background for mobile: understanding of AI/ML architecture patterns on-device and in the cloud, model integration, privacy/security implications, and user experience considerations.
• Profile traits
• Hands-on technical leader who sets standards through code and mentorship.
• Systems thinker focused on scalable patterns, developer experience, and “force multiplier” practices.
• Customer-obsessed, balancing external and internal use cases at very high traffic/scale.

Experience Level

Senior Level