Senior Principal Software Engineer, Fraud Prevention

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Palo Alto invites an experienced Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead high-throughput, low-latency software delivery within the Trust & Safety, Payments Technology group. You will drive architectural choices, mentor teams, and ensure secure production-grade code across microservices.

The role emphasizes Java-based backend systems, Spring ecosystem, cloud services, and modern security practices, with collaboration across multiple tech stacks in an agile setting.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience building low latency, high throughput server side Python-based software solutions. Advanced in Java and related programming languages.
• Experience with developing highly scalable, secure, and resilient applications utilizing Java, Spring Core, Spring Boot, REST APIs, JPA, Hibernate, Kubernetes, Docker, Swagger, and Skaffold.
• Excellent understanding of security standards, such as OAuth, TLS, JWT, Kerberos etc.
• Good understanding of Domain Driven Design, microservices patterns, and modern/emerging architectures.
• Agile software development experience is a must.
• Proficiency with AIML Model development. Familiarity with log/metric collection and monitoring technologies, such as ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Splunk is a plus.
• Proficiency with Python programming language.
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Experience with modern microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Writes advanced level code in Java to build cutting edge high throughput low latency engineering solutions.
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Java

Python

Spring Core

Spring Boot

REST APIs

JPA

Hibernate

Kubernetes

Docker

Security standards

OAuth

TLS

JWT

Kerberos

Domain Driven Design

Microservices

Agile

AIML

ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

AppDynamics

Splunk

AWS

S3

EKS

EC2

EMR Spark

SageMaker

SQS

Lambda

CloudFormation

Terraform

Kafka

Cassandra

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Swagger

Skaffold

ELK stack

Prometheus

Grafana

AppDynamics

Splunk

AWS services

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Palo Alto invites an experienced Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead high-throughput, low-latency software delivery within the Trust & Safety, Payments Technology group. You will drive architectural choices, mentor teams, and ensure secure production-grade code across microservices.

The role emphasizes Java-based backend systems, Spring ecosystem, cloud services, and modern security practices, with collaboration across multiple tech stacks in an agile setting.