Java AWS Software Engineer III

Job Description

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 & Community Banking - Trust & Security Identity team, 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

• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness. 

• 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.

• Lead the decomposition of existing bespoke Java/Spring Boot Identity services into discrete, platform-consumable components with stable API contracts

• Apply legacy modernization patterns (strangler fig, anti-corruption layer) to migrate services incrementally without disrupting in-flight products

• Define and enforce API contracts for all services being migrated or retired — ensuring consuming teams are not broken during transition

• Build and maintain the developer portal enabling line of business and product teams to discover, onboard to, and monitor platform services

• Contribute to observability tooling — logging, tracing, and alerting across the platform to provide unified operational visibility

• Partner with the platform Integration Engineer to ensure migrated services conform to platform integration adapter patterns

• Improve application stability by identifying migration risks early and building automated validation into the migration pipeline

• Develop secure, high-quality production code and provide thoughtful code reviews to raise engineering standards

• Partner with product and technology stakeholders to sequence migration priorities against business impact

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

• 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 for correctness, performance, and security. 

• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices.

• Experience decomposing bespoke or monolithic services into platform-consumable components with well-defined API contracts

• Experience establishing and versioning stable API contracts for services being decommissioned or migrated 

• Experience with Java, Spring-based technologies, and event-driven microservices in a cloud environment

• Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Experience with microservices and RESTful APIs, relational and NoSQL databases, and data modeling

• Hands-on experience with data streaming and messaging frameworks (Kafka or equivalent)

• Experience containerizing and running services using Docker and Kubernetes (including Helm)

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services technology — onboarding, KYC, or identity domains preferred

• Cloud certification and demonstrated cloud-native engineering experience

• Experience building or contributing to internal developer experience tooling — portals, sandboxes, API documentation

• Experience with OpenAPI/Swagger specification-first API design

• Experience translating performance, reliability, and scalability requirements into platform-grade service design

• Knowledge of service mesh patterns and inter-service observability

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

About the Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.