Principal Software Engineer (APIs)

If you are looking for a game-changing career working for one of the worlds leading financial institutions youve come to the right place.

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Home Lending - Originations group you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance build and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure stable and scalable way. Leverage your advanced technical capabilities and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to drive best-in-class outcomes across various technologies to support one or more of the firms portfolios.

Job responsibilities

• Own the design integration and API strategy (REST/GraphQL/gRPC event-driven) with clear versioning security and lifecycle standards.
• Define reusable integration patterns and canonical data contracts aligned to MISMO to ensure consistency and reuse.
• Lead design reviews and maintain reference architectures and ADRs across domains guiding strategic design decisions.
• Ensure designs meet non-functional requirements for security resiliency performance scalability cost and operability.
• Design and oversee Encompass LOS integrations and customizations using Developer Connect SDK and plugins.
• Orchestrate Encompass data flows with pricing engines DU/LP credit appraisal title eClose CRM and document systems.
• Drive platform capabilities for API gateways event streaming identity/authorization webhook integration etc
• Establish SLIs/SLOs resiliency patterns and telemetry standards to improve reliability and reduce MTTR.
• Mentor engineers and product partners on strategic design integration best practices and platform-thinking.
• Design and ideate PoCs experiment andand enforce governance for schema versioning backward compatibility and data lineage.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10 years applied experience
• Deep expertise designing and governing REST/GraphQL/gRPC APIs and event-driven architectures at enterprise scale.
• Hands-on Encompass LOS experience including Developer Connect APIs SDK/plugins business rules and pipeline automation.
• Strong mortgage domain knowledge including MISMO 3.4 UCD HMDA DU/LP workflows and TRID/RESPA impacts
• Proficiency with Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms and robust messaging patterns with DLQs and idempotency.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills with a BS in CS or related field
• Experience in Computer Science Computer Engineering Mathematics or a related technical field