Software Engineer III - Java & Kafka

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Infrastructure Platforms Team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
• Deep knowledge of SRE areas such as hardware, networking, storage engineering, deployment, automation, scaling, or resilience
• Deep knowledge of messaging/streaming technology (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) and programming/scripting languages (e.g., Java, Python, Unix Shell Scripting)
• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure including AWS, Cloud Foundry, or Kubernetes
• Significant programming background with familiarity in Linux
• Knowledge and certifications in Kubernetes, Azure, GCP, Terraform, and AWS
• Proficiency in automation technologies such as Puppet and Terraform, as well as database platforms and SQL
• Experience with CICD processes and technologies (e.g., Jenkins, Jira, Git) and authentication/authorization technologies (e.g., OAuth, Kerberos)

Skills

• Java
• Kafka
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Terraform