Senior Java Engineer: Spring Boot + Kafka

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City is seeking a Software Engineer III to contribute to agile teams delivering trusted, scalable technology products. You will design, develop, and optimize software across multiple tech areas while ensuring security and reliability.

The role emphasizes production-grade coding, data-driven improvements, and collaboration with enterprise engineering practices. It offers exposure to cloud services and modern frontend tech within a large financial tech environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience
• Hands-on system design and application development
• Proficient in Java programming
• Experience with Spring Boot
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with enterprise AI coding assist tools
• Familiar with SDLC tools and automation
• Familiar with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to AWS (EC2/ECS/S3)

Responsibilities

• Execute software solutions, design, develop, and troubleshoot complex problems
• Write secure, high-quality production code and maintain algorithms
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex apps
• Analyze large data sets to support software improvements
• Identify patterns in data to drive code and architecture improvements
• Contribute to software engineering communities and explore new technologies

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

AI coding tools

SDLC tools

Front-end tech

AWS

NoSQL Cassandra

Spark

Scala

HDFS

Kafka

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Jira

CI/CD

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City is seeking a Software Engineer III to contribute to agile teams delivering trusted, scalable technology products. You will design, develop, and optimize software across multiple tech areas while ensuring security and reliability.

The role emphasizes production-grade coding, data-driven improvements, and collaboration with enterprise engineering practices. It offers exposure to cloud services and modern frontend tech within a large financial tech environment.