Software Engineer III - Java and Cutover Platform Development

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 Infrastructure Platforms, 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.
• Write secure, high‑quality code and automated tests; participate in code reviews and architecture/design sessions.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications and ensure implementations meet resiliency and security constraints.
• Led development on the Cutover vendor platform to support enterprise change, release, and resilience by designing and maintaining runbooks, task templates, dependencies, approvals, and milestones for complex events.
• Developed integrations between Cutover and internal/external systems using platform APIs and event hooks, including CI/CD, ServiceNow, Jira, GitHub, Kafka, and monitoring tools.
• Engineered automation tasks for orchestrating pre/post checks, smoke tests, data validations, reconciliations, progressive rollouts, and implemented robust error handling, retries, compensation steps, and observability.
• Configured SSO and RBAC mappings with identity teams, enforced least privilege and segregation of duties, and managed environment strategies, calendars, blackout windows, scheduling, dry runs, readiness reviews, and war rooms.
• Identify and eliminate recurring issues to improve operational stability; drive improvements in coding hygiene, resiliency, and system architecture.
• Provide technical leadership for small sub‑teams; transform requirements into stories and build plans; mentor junior engineers.
• Support production releases and provide out‑of‑hours support as part of a rotation shift.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related disciplines
• 2+ years hands on developing with the Cutover vendor platform in large scale enterprise contexts..
• Demonstrated hands-on expertise in Java, including strong fundamentals, OO design, concurrency, proficiency with Spring Boot for distributed event-driven microservices, and robust testing practices using JUnit, Mockito, and integration testing.:
• Extensive experience in Cutover platform development, including building and maintaining production-grade runbooks and reusable task libraries/templates.
• Proficient in integrating Cutover with CI/CD and ITSM/dev tools via APIs and webhooks, as well as implementing zero or near-zero downtime deployment patterns and safe rollback strategies.
• Skilled in planning and executing database/schema migrations, designing approval workflows, conditional paths, dependencies, and managing calendars and resource coordination.
• Experienced in configuring SSO, roles, permissions, ensuring auditability and compliance, and establishing observability for orchestrations through logs, metrics, alerts, and continuous improvement.
• Experience operating in Linux environments; familiarity with containers and cloud architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with event‑driven architecture and distributed messaging (e.g., Kafka).
• CI/CD fundamentals and toolchain experience (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, Argo).
• Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Go (Golang) for high‑performance services and operational tooling.
• gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
• Caching technologies (e.g., Redis).and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Resilient SQL and NoSQL databases and schema design (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB) and Kubernetes and public cloud knowledge (e.g., CKAD, AWS certifications).
• Familiarity with modern front‑end technologies (e.g., React) for internal dashboards and runbook monitoring.