Location: Palo Alto, CA, United States

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

 

As a Backend Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking API Marketplace team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and enhancing the API Platform that empowers our API developers. We seek engineers with a broad technical perspective and a passion for solving complex challenges using expertise across multiple disciplines. In this role, you will manage end-to-end problem-solving, with a focus on data engineering, advocate for effective solutions across diverse technology stacks, and help promote significant business value for our customers through robust API offerings.

 

Job Responsibilities

• Applies discipline and creativity to address business-critical challenges, collaborating with tech leads, product managers, and designers to deliver impactful outcomes.
• Identifies and acts on opportunities to reduce technical debt, enhancing the quality of engineering outputs.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders and confidently leads customer discussions.
• Writes secure, high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code developed by peers.
• Guides decisions affecting product design, application functionality, technical operations, and processes, offering leadership rooted in technical expertise and clear communication.
• Functions as a subject matter expert across one or more areas within the organization.
• Actively supports the engineering community by promoting firmwide frameworks, tools, and Software Development Life Cycle practices.
• Cultivates a team environment that values diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, with 3+ years of practical experience.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and ensuring operational stability.
• Proficient in programming and application development using Java, Spring Boot, REST, Microservices, RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Cloud Native technologies, Agile methodologies, DevOps, and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Recent experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, including S3, Athena, Glue, and EMR, as well as container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong practical skills in code instrumentation, with a thorough understanding of logging, metrics, and monitoring best practices.
• Prior experience with API Platforms, possessing deep expertise in one or more aspects of the API stack, including cloud connectivity, network diagnostics, resilient systems, API security, authentication/authorization, API gateways, and API design (specification, standards, documentation, governance).
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with significant expertise in one or more technical domains (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile).
• Ability to independently resolve design and functionality issues with minimal supervision.
• Practical experience with cloud native technologies.
• Academic background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines using technologies such as AWS, Apache Spark, and Databricks.
• Familiarity with data warehouse solutions like Amazon Redshift and Snowflake.
• Hands-on experience developing robust ETL pipelines.
• Proficiency in both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Apache Airflow.
• Data visualization skills, including developing reports and dashboards with tools like Tableau.
• Experience architecting highly scalable and resilient software systems on public cloud platforms such as AWS, applying various resiliency design principles and practices.

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ACT: This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.

Design and deliver market-leading technology products in a secure and scalable way as a seasoned member of an agile team