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Software Engineer II - Java Backend at JPMorgan Chase in Palo Alto, CA
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Job Description
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 Commercial & Investment Bank (CIB) supporting Payments Initiation, you are part of an agile team that enhances, designs, and delivers critical payment and integration capabilities in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of the engineering team, you will execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components across services, pipelines, and platform infrastructure, while building the skills needed to grow within your role.
Job Responsibilities
- Execute standard software solutions, including design, development, testing, and technical troubleshooting
- Write secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance
- Design, develop, code, and troubleshoot with consideration of upstream/downstream systems and technical implications
- Contribute to microservices and integration patterns for payment workflows, ensuring reliability and performance
- Apply knowledge of tools within the SDLC toolchain to improve value realized by automation (CI/CD)
- Support containerized workloads on Kubernetes, including debugging deployments, scaling, and operational stability
- Contribute to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for repeatable, auditable environment provisioning and change management
- Apply technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic to moderate complexity
- Gather, analyze, and draw conclusions from large, diverse data sets (logs/metrics/traces) to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development
- Learn and apply system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems
Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience
- Professional software engineering experience building and operating production-grade backend services and/or streaming/data systems
- Proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, Scala, Python, or Go (Golang) for backend development
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Experience across the full SDLC, including CI/CD, release practices, and production support
- Working knowledge or hands-on exposure to Kubernetes fundamentals (pods, deployments, services, ingress, configmaps/secrets, troubleshooting)
- Working knowledge or hands-on exposure to Terraform (modules, environments/workspaces, plan/apply workflow, change review practices)
- 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, observability, security, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Experience with service mesh concepts (traffic management, mTLS, retries/timeouts, egress controls)
- Experience with observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces) and on-call readiness for production systems
Federal Deposit Insurance Act
This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase’s review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.
About Company
Company
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 coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans