Software Engineer III - Backend Python

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 III at JPMorganChase within the IP, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

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

• 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages (Python) and database querying languages.

• Hands on backend Python development

• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages (Java, Django, SQL)

• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle

• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies (React)

• Exposure to cloud technologies