The role
From JPMorgan Chase's own posting.
Put your engineering skills to work on products that matter. You will collaborate with an agile team to design, build, and improve secure, scalable technology. This role is built for growth, giving you hands-on experience across the software development life cycle while strengthening your development and troubleshooting skills. You will learn from peers, use modern tooling, and contribute to high-quality delivery. If you enjoy solving problems and continuously improving how software is built, this is a strong next step.
As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the FICC eTrading tech team, you will design, develop, and troubleshoot software components that support secure, stable, and scalable technology products. You will contribute as an emerging member of an agile team, delivering software solutions across multiple components within a product, application, or system. You will write high-quality code, apply secure engineering practices, and learn through collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement. You will consider upstream and downstream impacts as you build and enhance solutions. You will also use enterprise-authorized tooling to improve productivity while validating outputs through testing and peer review.
Job responsibilities
Design, build, test, and deliver high-quality software solutions for electronic trading systems, from requirements through production rollout
Contribute to architecture decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and resilient
Build and maintain low-latency, high-throughput services with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and correctness
Integrate services with internal and external systems, ensuring well-defined interfaces, robust error handling, and operational readiness
Own production outcomes by participating in on-call/support, triaging incidents, performing root-cause analysis, and driving permanent fixes
Improve engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and continuous refactoring to strengthen system health
Contribute to an inclusive team culture and actively engage in communities of practice to evaluate and adopt relevant emerging technologies
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Strong OOP/design patterns understanding and clean code practices
Strong coding skills in Java and Spring with solid fundamentals
Proven, hands-on experience across system design, application development, testing, and production support
Experience with FIX protocol
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Knowledge of fixed income products
Exposure to agentic AI