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Principal Software Engineer, API Marketplace

AT JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase

Principal Software Engineer, API Marketplace

Seattle, WA

If you are looking for a game-changing career, working for one of the world's leading financial institutions, you've come to the right place.

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking division, you will have the opportunity to utilize your technical expertise in a dynamic, inclusive environment. Our team values professional growth and open communication, ensuring that every voice is heard. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all, focusing on the potential for success rather than any bias. This role is concise and impactful, offering the chance to contribute to innovative projects and make a significant impact on our business.

Job responsibilities

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  • Drive, support, and deliver on a strategy to design, implement and operate scalable API Gateways on AWS using a broad spectrum of AWS services including but not limited to EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and API Gateway. Drive similar effort on an on-premise platform based on Kubernetes.
  • Identify opportunities to improve resiliency, availability, security and performance using JPMC and industry best practices.
  • Develop secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
  • Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
  • Provide primary technical engineering leadership for the runtime platform including API Gateways. Show leadership for any production issue and manage all the corresponding teams in working towards fix and minimal customer impact
  • Implement continuous process improvement, including but not limited to policy, procedures, and production monitoring. Analyze upcoming platform level changes into production ensure communication of relevant impact.
  • Roll your sleeves up in deep problem solving
  • Champions the firm's culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skill

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Strong expertise with distributed systems and cloud technologies especially in AWS
  • Extensive experience in programming languages like Java, Go, Python and Scala, Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services
  • Experience with micro services/RESTful API, data modeling and data ingestion frameworks.
  • Experience with data streaming and messaging frameworks (Kafka, Spark, etc.).
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Certifications in AWS


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.

Client-provided location(s): Seattle, WA, USA; Palo Alto, CA, USA
Job ID: JPMorgan-210617969
Employment Type: Full Time