Software Engineer III- Python/Java

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 AI/ML and Data Platform, 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 software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.

• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.

• Performs platform design, set-up and configuration, providing engineering support to data engineering teams, Data Science/ML, and Application/integration teams.

• Collaborates with engineering and data teams to optimize infrastructure and deployment processes, focusing on automation and operational excellence.

• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.

• 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.

• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture.

• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.

• Extensive experience with AWS Databricks platform administration and engineering support is a MUST.

• Strong understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.

• Experience with monitoring tools, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.

• 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.

• Proficient in Python and/or Java application program development with use of automated unit testing.

• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Knowledge of Big Data distributed compute frameworks like Spark, Glue, MapReduce etc.

• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in Data pipelines using Spark

• Exposure to AWS & Databricks Platform administration.

• Knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration.

• Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale data processing.