What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Software Engineer III position at JPMorgan Chase?
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Software Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
- Creates secure, high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
- Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets to drive continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
- Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data, using insights to improve coding hygiene and system architecture.
- Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
- Adds to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
- Designs, builds, and maintains a scalable, reliable GraphQL platform with strong performance and high availability.
- Develops observability and alerting solutions to monitor platform health and proactively resolve issues.
- Automates CI/CD pipelines and standardizes infrastructure processes to streamline developer workflows and reduce manual effort.
- Creates intuitive self-service features for developers to access, manage, and integrate platform services.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 3 years of professional experience in software engineering, with a focus on building platforms.
- Skilled in scripting and automation using Bash, Groovy, or similar languages.
- Hands-on experience using Terraform for infrastructure management.
- Practical knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of RESTful and GraphQL service concepts.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools.
- Familiarity with version control systems (Git or Bitbucket) and experience with at least one modern monitoring tool such as Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace, or CloudWatch.
- Familiarity with OAuth 2.0 and secure authentication and authorization practices.
- Strong attention to detail in documenting processes, developing runbooks, and illustrating architectures for team use.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience building and maintaining GraphQL platforms.
- Experience working with cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Familiarity with AWS deployments (EKS, ECS Fargate), IAM Roles, and Security Groups.
- Knowledge of AWS services such as S3, RDS Aurora Postgres, MSK, VPC, CloudWatch, X-Ray, ElastiCache-Redis, and KMS.
- Familiarity in at least one programming language, preferably Java or Rust.
- Experience setting up observability solutions (metrics, logging, alerting) and automating CI/CD pipelines for platform components using Jenkins and Spinnaker.
Experience or interest in GraphQL Federation, entities, schema governance, architecture, and developer tooling.