Software Engineer III - Java / Kafka

Software Engineer III - Java / Kafka

Chicago, IL, United States

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Job Information

Job Identification

210798681

Job Category

Software Engineering

Business Unit

Commercial & Investment Bank

Posting Date

10/29/2026, 03:51 PM

Locations

10 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL, 60603, US

Job Schedule

Full time

Job Shift

Day

Base Pay/Salary

Chicago,IL $114,000.00-$155,000.00

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 Commercial & Investment Bank - Payment Platform 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

Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting

Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance

Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications

Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation

Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity

Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development

Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems

Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages - Core Java, Spring Boot, RESTFUL API

Understanding of Java Design patterns and experience on implementing it in application development.

Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle

Experience writing test cases using testing tools like JUnit.

Experience using code versioning tools, such as Git, Bitbucket

Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD).

Understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Exposer to AI - using python, AI, Copilot in VScode/Intellij

knowledge of Containerization and Container Runtime/Orchestration platforms (Docker/Kubernetes/ECS etc)

knowledge about messaging – Kafka

knowledge about Relational/NoSQL databases