Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer III - Java, Spring, React, Kafka

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

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Global Banking Tech 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.

 

Job responsibilities

• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

• Create secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems

• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development

• Gather, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems

• Identify hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

• Hands-on experience across Java/J2EE, Spring ecosystem, MongoDB, Kafka, and React

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with 4+ years in senior/lead roles

• Proven track record delivering complex, distributed, production-grade systems at scale

• Strong communication and stakeholder management; ability to lead design reviews and mentor engineers

• Microservices and event-driven architectures; API-first design; domain-driven design (DDD)

• Caching strategies (in-memory, Redis), connection pooling, resource governance

• Throughput/latency improvements: zero-copy patterns, batching, reactive/non-blocking I/O

• Capacity planning and performance budgets; load testing (JMeter/Gatling) and regression baselines

• Stakeholder engagement: translating business needs into technical outcomes and KPIs

• Clear, executive-ready communication: risk trade-offs, dependency management, deliverable planning 

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies

• Experience with Camunda, Apache Camel

• Exposure to cloud technologies

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

 

 

Experience Level

Senior Level