Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States

Design and deliver market-leading technology products in a secure and scalable way as a seasoned member of an agile team

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 Asset Wealth Management, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Working within the global Fund Admin & Transfer Agency tech organization, you will take ownership of technical delivery end-to-end while actively engaging with stakeholders to translate business needs into well-planned, high-quality software solutions. This role demands a self-starter who thrives in a collaborative environment, can manage competing priorities, and drives engineering excellence across the team. 

Job responsibilities

• Executes the build-out of strategic end-to-end platform capabilities for Fund Administration and Transfer Agency businesses

• Design, develop, and deliver full stack software solutions, applying strong problem-solving skills to break down complex technical challenges.

• Engage directly with stakeholders and product owners to gather requirements, clarify scope, and ensure technical solutions align with business objectives.

• Participate in development planning activities including backlog refinement, sprint planning, effort estimation, and technical roadmap definition 

• Adopt enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted coding pipelines, code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while following consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.

• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain

• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review peers' work to maintain consistency, reliability, and adherence to engineering standards.

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

• Maintain clear and organized documentation including technical designs, architecture decisions, and runbooks, ensuring knowledge is shared and accessible.

• Participate in communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of modern tooling, patterns, and best practices.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience

• Core Java and full-stack application development, Object-oriented analysis and design techniques, experience with REST APIs 

• Hands-on practical experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle, including system design, application development, testing, CI/CD pipelines, and operational support.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business requirements into actionable technical plans. (e.g. working collaboratively in agile teams and participating in Scrum ceremonies, stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint planning)

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

• Experience in writing and maintaining comprehensive unit, functional, and integration tests.

• Experience implementing observability practices including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLO/SLA management.

• Experience building event-driven systems and distributed architectures using messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka.

• Experience integrating operational and investment data platforms through APIs, event streams, and data pipelines.

• 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.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies, eg. REACT

• Hands-on exposure to AWS cloud services and ecosystems

• AWS Certified (e.g., Solutions Architect, Developer, etc.) 

• Financial Services experience.  Working knowledge of Fund Administration, Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, Custody, Investment Operations, or Asset Management platforms