Software Engineer II - Java Developer + Kafka + Kubernetes

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

 As a Software Engineer II - Java Developer + Kafka + Kubernetes Developer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank -  you'll be a part of Structured Finance Technology Team which supports Commercial Lending activities (Bi-Lateral or Multi-Lateral Loans) for multiple lines of businesses of JP Morgan Chase. LoanIQ is the primary Loan Accounting and Servicing Platform and Aurora is an in-house application supporting loan activities from origination and syndication, loan maintenance to secondary loan trading. You will be working on the build out of the Aurora, a multi-year strategic investment leveraging Agile and fortress architecture principles. 

Job Responsibilities :

• Design, analyze, develop, test, debug, and model the system components necessary to produce potentially shippable product iterations with each sprint.
• Deliver high quality code that complies with standards and satisfies architectural tests.
• Perform pair programming and assist the team in supporting the application in all required environments.
• Provide estimates for user stories utilizing planning poker.
• Participate in product backlog prioritization, story mapping, and story splitting activities. 
• Prepare and lead sprint review meetings showcasing completed product backlog items to the product owner and subject matter experts.  
• Proactively look to develop and implement best practices across the entire project team, practicing continuous process improvement.
• Collaborate face to face and virtually with the Product Owner, Operations and Technology partners around the world.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills :

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience
• Hands-on programming/application development experience utilizing JAVA/J2EE,Spring Boot, REST, Micro Services, Kafka, Kubernetes, Agile, DevOps and TDD. 
• Excellent Core JAVA ( w/ Java8 Features )skills having deep experience in OOAD, Threads & Concurrency and Collections
• Experience working in Unix.
• Strong experience utilizing standalone Spring Framework integration 
• Strong object oriented analysis and design skills (OOAD) 
• Good SQL/PL-SQL Skills and Hibernate/JPA 
• Passionate about testing strategy, problem solving, learning new skills, sharing expertise and knowledge
• Strong written and oral communication.
• Proven ability to collaborate with global teams and good presentation and influential skills.
• Experience working in Agile teams, ability to focus and grasp business concepts explained during PBRs.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills :

• React and AWS is an added advantage.
• Bachelors or Masters Degree - preferably in Computer Science
• Experience in Oracle 12c preferred
• Loan IQ experience