Software Engineer III - SRE

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Home Lending division, you will have the opportunity to advance your career by building reliable, scalable, and resilient systems. You will be part of a team that focuses on system reliability, automation, and observability, ensuring our Home Lending platforms run smoothly in production. This role offers a chance to collaborate with product, architecture, security, and operations teams, and to contribute to a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

We are seeking a Software Engineer who is passionate about building reliable, scalable, and resilient systems. This role combines software development with a focus on system reliability, automation, and observability. You will design, code and implement solutions that ensure our Home Lending platforms run smoothly in production, including services that interact with internal and external systems.

Job responsibilities

• Develop resilient software solutions that improve reliability, scalability and system performance of the Loan Origination System (LOS). 
• Design, Develop and Automate operational workflows to help improve Mean time to Resolve(MTTR) and Mean time to Detect(MTTD).
• Enhance observability by identifying gaps and building monitoring, logging and alerting to ensure service health are within thresholds and SLAs. 
• Collaborates with product, architecture, security and operations teams prioritize reliability and embed best practices across the software development lifecycle. 
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response and post mortems. 
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• 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.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
• 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 software development concepts and 3 years applied experience.
• 3 years of experience working as a software developer/engineer, SRE/Devops, platform engineering, or similar. 
• Hands-on practical experience in designing resilient system design, application development, testing, that improve operational stability and reliability.
• Experience in working and integrating third-party systems. 
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages (e.g. Python).
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
• Strong communicator and effective collaborator across technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to SRE/Devops practices (SLA/SLOs, error budgets, MTTR, MTTD).
• Exposure to AI/Automation technologies that improve operations.
• Knowledge of ITIL, and Agile methodologies.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Dockers, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to monitoring tools like Thousand Eyes, Catchpoint or New Relic.
• AWS Certifications (e.g.  Solutions Architect Associate).