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 firms 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