Software Engineer III - Full Stack Java / Kafka

Are you ready to apply? Make sure you understand all the responsibilities and tasks associated with this role before proceeding. Be an integral part of an agile team that is constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. As a Senior Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management Technology team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities:

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, high quality and secure solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications, leveraging modern technologies and the best industry practices.
• Practices and promotes a rich testing strategy including but not limited to unit, integration, component level and E2E functional testing.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of specialty.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of latest architecture trends.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience.
• Practical expertise in Java Spring / Spring Boot.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering distributed complex system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience building solutions on AWS and Terraform.
• Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements and stream processing with Kafka.
• Experience with a modern CI/CD like Jenkins.
• Experience with modern version control platform such as GitHub.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience driving requirement refinement with product and working with stakeholders.
• Experience building and deploying on Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform).
• Experience using both relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational databases (e.g. DynamoDB).

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We recognise that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realise their goals. Our Asset and Wealth Management division is driven by innovators like you who are driven to create technology solutions that make us work more efficiently and help our businesses grow. It's our mission to efficiently take care of our clients' wealth, helping them get, and remain properly invested. Our team of agile technologists thrive in a cloud-native environment that values continuous learning using a data-centric approach in developing innovative technology solutions.