Software Engineer II - Backend Developer (Java and Athena)

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Bank Technology team, 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 software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Works on delivering key solutions for business on Trading and Risk Management platforms like Athena, Quartz, or similar platforms.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Helps in modernization by working on migrating and building applications on AWS.
• 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.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on system design concepts and 2+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle.
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Hands-on work experience on Trading and Risk Management platforms like Athena, Quartz, etc.
• Good knowledge of Java, Object-Oriented Programming, Spring Boot framework, and related technologies.
• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages.
• Understanding of version control systems like Git.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud would be considered an added advantage.
• Knowledge of JavaScript, ReactJS, and other front-end technologies would be considered an added advantage.
• Good understanding of Microservices architecture and RESTful API design.
• Database technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, and ORM frameworks.
• Exposure to cloud technologies