Software Engineer

Job description

Our Global Technology Infrastructure group is a team of innovators rewarded with innovators who love technology as much as you do. Together, you’ll use a disciplined, innovative and a business focused approach to develop a wide variety of high-quality products and solutions. You’ll work in a stable, resilient and secure operating environment where you—and the products you deliver—will thrive.

As an experienced Software Engineer, your mission is to help lead our team of innovators and technologists toward creating next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run. Your deep knowledge of design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming will help your team raise their game, meeting your standards, as well as satisfying both business and functional requirements. Your expertise in various technology domains will be counted on to set strategic direction and solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. Your quest to embracing leading-edge technologies and methodologies inspires your team to follow suit. And best of all, you’ll be able to harness massive amounts of brainpower through our global network of technologists from around the world.

The Software Engineer role is responsible for development and maintenance of the JPMC's Compute Back Bone high performance compute grid middleware software stack, focusing on workload scheduling and distribution, data management and caching, language bindings, shared services, deployment and diagnostic tools. Additional duties involve participation in the architectural analysis and feasibility studies for newly on-boarding applications, consulting customers on grid computing techniques and best practices. This is a highly technical role which requires very good distributed programming expertise with a strong emphasis on parallel programming and established vendor and open source distributed middleware. Ability to learn new technologies quickly in a self-driven manner is critical.

Qualifications:
·  University bachelor degree or above with major in Computer Science or related areas;
·  Very strong knowledge and experience in two of C/C++, Java or Python
·  Solid knowledge of Linux both operationally and as development environment;
·  Knowledge of scripting languages (shell scripting, Python);
·  Familiar with SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle);
·  Strong experience working experience in IT industry;
·  Experience with production support of highly visible, mission-critical, and highly available financial applications;
·  Self-motivated and responsible
·  Strong analytical and problem solving abilities;
·  Good understanding of numerical algorithms;
·  Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal;
·  Strong documentation ability
Preferred Skills:
·  Experience with IBM Platform Symphony/EGO/LSF/Conductor
·  Experience with Apache Spark
·  Experience with ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana)
·  Experience with public cloud APIs (AWS, OpenStack..)
·  Cross-platform development skills (Linux, Windows);
·  Hands-on experience building large-scale software systems;
·  Able to own and drive a project when necessary;
·  Experience with a major financial institution;
·  Knowledge of Jules, Jenkins, Scons
·  Messaging Middleware;
·  In-memory distributed cache;
·  JVM fine-tuning;
·  GPU programming;

All internal moves will normally take place on the same grade and same salary. Salaries are reviewed annually in February. Exceptions to the rule regarding transfer on current salary may include a move between geographic locations.

When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you’re not just working at a global financial institution. You’re an integral part of one of the world’s biggest tech companies. In 14 technology hubs worldwide, our team of 40,000+ technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $9.5B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will not only transform the financial services industry, but also change the world. 

At JPMorgan Chase & Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we’re building a technology organization that thrives on diversity.  We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation.  If you’re looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.