Software Engineer III - Java/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

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As an Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Banking technology team, youare 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 breakdown technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in Java
• Experience with Spring boot
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, ECS, S3)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Programming with NoSQL/NPL a plus (Cassandra)
• Familiar with big data technologies - Spark, Scala, HDFS
• Familiar with modern infrastructure technology and architecture (cloud, virtualization, object stores, etc.)
• Familiar with Kafka