Software Engineer III - Java, Kafka

Job Description

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

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Payments Technology team, you will be an experienced member of an agile team, tasked with designing and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on experience in enterprise software development, modern testing tools (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test Framework).
• Excellent understanding of Java fundamentals and frameworks (Spring Boot), OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies and computer networks.
• Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting software running in a Linux environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience working with globally distributed engineers and stakeholders.
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile approach.
• Hands-on experience with event driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies (Kafka).
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Hands on experience another statically compiled language like Golang, Rust.
• Experience with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers, caching technologies, e.g. Redis.