Software Engineer II - Platform Engineer/Databricks

Next Frontier Capital; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

On-site health centers

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Chief Data Analytics Office (CDAO) AIML Data Platforms Team. You will contribute to building and delivering trusted data-driven technology in a secure, scalable manner and work across data engineering, data science, and application teams.

The role emphasizes cloud-based design, development, and operational support with a focus on data platforms, Databricks, Spark, and Terraform tooling, in a large corporate environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and troubleshooting across multiple technical areas.
• Solves cloud data platform problems by building data lake solutions.
• Designs and maintains a managed AWS Databricks platform and supports SRE/app teams.
• Performs platform design, setup and configuration, workspace administration, and monitoring.
• Supports data engineering, Data Science/ML, and application/integration teams.

Skills

Python/Java development

Data analysis

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

GitHub/Bitbucket

Jenkins

PyPI/Maven Artifactory

Spark

Terraform

Databricks

Job description

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

The Chief Data & Analytics Office (CDAO) at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the firm’s data and analytics journey. This includes ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the company's data, as well as leveraging this data to generate insights and drive decision‑making. The CDAO is also responsible for developing and implementing solutions that support the firm’s commercial goals by harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management effectively and responsibly.

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Chief Data Analytics Office - AIML Data Platforms Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

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.
• Solves the company’s most challenging cloud data platform problems by building innovative technical solutions around Data Lake tools.
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Designs, implements, and maintains a managed AWS Databricks platform, and provides engineering and operational support for the platform to SRE and app teams.
• Performs platform design, set‑up and configuration, workspace administration, resource monitoring, providing engineering support to data engineering teams, Data Science/ML, and Application/integration teams.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience.
• Hands‑on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Hands‑on experience with Python and/or Java application program development with use of automated unit testing.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS services including provisioning infrastructure using automated tools.
• Hands‑on experience with GitHub / Bitbucket code versioning tool, Jenkins build tool and pypi / maven artifactory integrations.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Knowledge of Big Data distributed compute frameworks like Spark and Terraform.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands‑on experience with Big Data Spark Data Pipeline development.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform Enterprise Infrastructure provisioning.
• Hands‑on experience with Databricks.
• Knowledge about Platform Administration, Monitoring and Resiliency.

Benefits

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission‑based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on‑site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.