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Software Engineer III - Backend Java/Kotlin

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jersey City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jul 2025

About the role

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 III at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector Employee Compute 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 standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
  • Writes secure and high-quality code using Java/Kotlin.
  • 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.
  • Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems.
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
  • Implement and manage cloud messaging APIs and push notification services.
  • Utilize code versioning tools, especially Git, for efficient source code management.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience  
  • Proficient with Java and Cloud services such as AWS
  • Experience with design, develop, and deploy micro services for scalable and maintainable applications/services
  • Set up, configure, and manage Jenkins pipelines for automated build and deployment processes
  • Develop enterprise-level applications using the Spring framework, including Spring Boot, Spring MVC; Write and maintain backend code in Java, kotlin, including object-oriented programming and design patterns
  • Create and maintain shell scripts for automation and system administration tasks; Write complex SQL queries, optimize database performance, and manage relational databases.
  • Use Maven for project management, dependency management, and build automation; Work with JSON for data interchange between client and server applications
  • Deploy, manage, and scale applications using various AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, KMS
  • 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 backend services written in Java/Kotlin code in a large corporate environment

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Familiarity with Kotlin
  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD) to ensure high- quality, maintainable code by writing tests before implementing functionality.
  • Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial

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