Software Engineer III - Low-Latency Java and Kafka

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
• 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 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 building high-performance, latency-sensitive Java applications 

• Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting software running in a Linux environment, familiarity with the Linux operating system, system utilities, containers and cloud architectures and services 

• 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 practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle

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

• Experience with  infrastructure as code software, e.g. Terraform,  designing schemas/data structures in resilient SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. CockroachDB) 

• Familiarity with front-end technologies, like ReactJs 

• Certified Kubernetes and public cloud knowledge (e.g. CKAD and AWS certifications)