Software Engineer II - Backend Developer

Software Engineer II-Java Developer

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorganChase within CIB Payments Technology, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Job responsibilities

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development
• Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Build scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services using AWS services (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, RDS).
• Collaborate with front-end developers, architects, and product managers to define API requirements and deliver solutions.
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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages
• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience in API development.
• Strong proficiency in at least Python programming language.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services relevant to API development (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience with RESTful API design and implementation; familiarity with GraphQL is a plus.
• Understanding of API security best practices.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience with serverless architectures.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, ECS, EKS).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch).
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Experience Level

Mid Level