Software Engineer II - Java

Job Description
Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to innovate, build, enhance and deliver top-notch technology products.
As Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Investment Bank 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

• Use domain modeling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.
• Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end and performance tests.
• Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, and secure solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications, leveraging modern technologies and the best industry practices.
• Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of speciality.
• Contribute to and be an advocate for high quality technical architecture design.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
• See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
• Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java concepts and proficient advanced experience (if Java, a willingness to learn Kotlin).
• Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements.
• Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns.
• Experience with a modern CI/CD platforms such Circle Ci.
• Experience with modern version control platform such as GitHub.
• A desire to teach others and share knowledge. A team player mindset where you want you to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Learns technologies and patterns quickly. Comfortable in uncharted waters.
• Ability to see the long term by choosing suitable technologies and approaches based on the end goals.
• High standards. We are looking for people who expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience designing and building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, GCP).
• Experience building and deploying on Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform).
• Experience using Kafka.
• Experience using both relational databases (e.g. Postgres) non-relational databases (e.g. DyanamoDB).

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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 our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.