Software Engineer I
Kick-start your software engineering career as an entry-level Software Engineer I. Be part of a team that is pushing the boundaries of what's possible.
As a Software Engineer I at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank for Trade Finance business, you will be a part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components to the firm's state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an entry-level member of a software engineering team, you execute basic software solutions through the design, development, and troubleshooting of a single technical area within a business function, while gaining skills and experience to grow within your role.
Job responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
- Develop and maintain user interfaces using React, ensuring responsive and intuitive design.
- Implement cloud-native and cloud-hybrid solutions on Kubernetes container orchestration technology.
- Leverage AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar to enhance productivity, code quality, and accelerate development cycles.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features in an agile environment.
- Utilize domain-driven design principles to architect scalable and maintainable systems and develop event-driven architectures to enhance system responsiveness and scalability.
- Work with SQL databases (e.g., Postgres) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB) to manage data effectively.
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Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 1+ year of experience
- Experience in software development, with a focus on microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
- Use AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
- Stay informed about advancements in AI-assisted software engineering and proactively adopt best practices for AI-driven development.
- Hands-on experience in Microservices, RESTful Web services development in Java (Spring Boot), Spring Data JPA.
- Proficient in UTCs, Mutation testing, and API automation testing strategies.
- Experience with working with cloud platforms and strong understanding of domain-driven design and event-driven architecture.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs and web services.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering and best practices for interacting with generative AI tools.
- Basic to intermediate proficiency in React for building and maintaining web user interfaces.
ABOUT US
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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.
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.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
Parental Benefits
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
Vacation and Time Off
Financial and Retirement
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion