AWS Software Engineer III - Cloud Platform

Join us as a core member of our agile engineering team, where you'll design and build the next generation of our cloud platform infrastructure. Our team operates across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP), and in this role, you'll focus specifically on reimagining our AWS platform from the ground up—writing production code that enables thousands of engineers across the firm to build and deploy applications efficiently and securely.

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Infrastructure Platforms Cloud Foundation Services, you are an essential member of an agile team dedicated to building and delivering trusted, market-leading platform technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. You'll apply strong software engineering principles to solve complex distributed systems challenges, creating platforms and tools that have direct business impact across the organisation.

This is a software engineering role focused on platform development—not a DevOps or infrastructure operations position. We're looking for engineers who are passionate about writing high-quality code, designing robust systems, and building platforms that other engineers love to use.

 Job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, high-quality production code for cloud platform services and tooling that enable engineering teams across the firm to build and deploy applications efficiently
• Architect and implement platform capabilities, contributing to product design, application functionality, and the evolution of our platform architecture
• Review and debug code written by others, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices and design principles
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influence peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Add to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining production software systems
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
• Experience building platforms, tools, or services that are consumed by other engineering teams
• Understanding of cloud-native architectural concepts including scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance, along with knowledge of distributed systems and microservices design patterns
• Practical experience with cloud platforms 
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Proficiency across the Software Development Life Cycle, including design, development, testing, and deployment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) from a software engineering perspective
• Familiarity with containerisation
• AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certification
• Comfortable working in an environment where pairing and software teaming are common practices to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Experience with Specification by Example or behaviour-driven development to ensure high-quality software delivery
• Ability to work effectively across teams and time zones, collaborating with colleagues to align on technical strategies and ensure architectural integrity in software solutions
• Understanding of API design principles and experience building RESTful or event-driven services

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 recognize 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, color, 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. Visit our

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Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.