Java​/Python, Kafka, Cloud Software Engineer III

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 Infrastructure Platforms, you will be an experienced member of an agile team, tasked with designing and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. Your role involves implementing essential technology solutions across diverse technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's strategic goals.

• 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
• 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
• Contribute to technical documentation, including service APIs (using Swagger), and ensure robust logging, auditability, security, and monitoring features.
• Apply knowledge of service level indicators and objectives to proactively address issues and improve system reliability.
• Participate in periodic on-call rotations to support platform monitoring and client needs.
• Support the adoption of SRE best practices within the team as needed.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on Computer Science concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
• Hands‑on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages such as Java/Spring Boot or Python.
• Strong understanding of software development processes and technical disciplines (e.g., Cloud, AI, Android).
• Experience with distributed systems and technologies such as Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams.
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git Lab, Terraform).
• Ability to troubleshoot networking technologies and resolve common issues.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in large teams. Proactive problem‑solving mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies.
• Ability to identify and implement innovative solutions to meet business needs.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

• Experience applying site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to software development.
• Familiarity with running Apache Flink / Confluent Cloud.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization technologies (OAUTH, Kerberos).
• Exposure to service level objective alerting and telemetry collection.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS).
• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk) and monitoring best practices is a plus.