Software Engineer II - Full Stack Engineer

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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 - Full Stack Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, 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 will also be a hands-on engineer on an Agile team building and operating Spring Boot microservices running on AWS (ECS Fargate or EKS) with Oracle and PostgreSQL (RDS), and a modern web UI built with React. You will design, develop, test, deploy, and support services in a secure, resilient, and observable production environment. 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

• Execute standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Design, build, and maintain full-stack features across UI and backend services (React or Java 17 / Spring Boot).
• Develop and operate microservices including API design, service decomposition, and reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, idempotency, DLQs).
• Build integrations using AWS services such as API Gateway, SQS, SNS, S3, and RDS ; troubleshoot production issues across services and infrastructure.
• Produce clear design/architecture artifacts (service boundaries, data flows, sequence diagrams, ADRs) and ensure implementation aligns with design constraints.
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Create secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• 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
• Proficiency with React (TypeScript, component architecture, state management, performance fundamentals).
• Experience with Java 17+ and Spring Boot , including Spring Data JPA / Hibernate (entity modeling, transactions, performance considerations like N+1, pagination).
• Hands-on deployment/operations with AWS ECS Fargate or Kubernetes/EKS , and container skills with Docker (image builds, runtime config, troubleshooting).
• Practical experience with API Gateway, SQS, SNS, S3 , and relational databases on RDS .
• Proven experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL (schema design, indexing, query tuning, migrations).
• Experience with CI/CD , automated testing (unit/integration), observability (logs/metrics/traces), and application security (authn/authz basics, secrets handling, dependency scanning).
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, test creation, troubleshooting, or documentation) with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages 
• 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

• Experience with event-driven architectures and message processing patterns (idempotency, DLQ handling, backoff/retry strategies)
• Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (e.g., Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK) and production operations experience (incident response, on-call, postmortems)
• API design maturity (OpenAPI/Swagger, backward compatibility/versioning, contract testing)
• Performance tuning experience across UI, JVM, and database layers
• Strong grounding in OOP, design patterns, and microservices best practices

ABOUT US

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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

ABOUT THE TEAM

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.