Job Description
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Distributed Systems Engineer at JPMorganChase, you’ll 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 will be responsible for building and evolving critical backend platforms and services that operate reliably at scale across multiple systems, regions, and environments—supporting the firm’s business objectives.
We are seeking a dedicated professional who is a strong team player, self-motivated, and driven to achieve engineering excellence on short timescales.
This is an extremely hands-on, delivery-focused, technical position involving deep analysis, coding, testing, performance tuning, and close partnership with product, SRE/operations, and end users. Prior experience in financial services is desirable, but curiosity, strong fundamentals, and the ability to learn quickly are just as important. The role involves a high degree of teamwork, technical design reviews, and peer interaction.
Job Responsibilities
- Executes software solutions: leads design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to build resilient distributed solutions and break down complex production problems.
- Builds secure, high-quality production services: develops and maintains low-latency and/or high-throughput services, background workers, and APIs with strong correctness and reliability guarantees.
- Designs for scale and reliability: produces architecture and design artifacts for complex distributed applications (e.g., service decomposition, data consistency patterns, caching, failover) and ensures design constraints are met in implementation.
- Ensures operational excellence: owns systems end-to-end including observability (metrics/logs/traces), incident response, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Works with large, diverse datasets: gathers, analyzes, and synthesizes signals from production telemetry and business data to drive continuous improvement and to inform reliability and scalability work.
- Identifies systemic issues: proactively detects hidden failure modes (hot partitions, thundering herds, cascading failures, backpressure gaps) and drives improvements to coding hygiene, testing strategy, and architecture.
- Collaborates across teams: partners with platform, infrastructure, security, and dependent application teams to deliver well-integrated capabilities and clear service contracts.
- Contributes to engineering communities: participates in communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies and raises the bar through mentoring and design/code review.
- Builds inclusive culture: contributes to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
Required qualifications, Capabilities & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- Recent, hands-on experience building distributed systems in one or more modern object-oriented languages.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models, consensus basics, idempotency, concurrency, retries/timeouts, leader election, partitioning, replication, and failure handling.
- Practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in production environments.
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment, including familiarity with database querying and data modeling (SQL and/or NoSQL).
- Solid knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and engineering best practices (code review, automated testing, secure coding, release management).
- Working knowledge of agile methodologies and modern delivery practices such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security controls.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills
- Strong technology generalist – experience building highly performant and resilient enterprise applications used within a high performance/realtime environment.
- Experience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy etc).
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- A desire to learn more about the Financial products.
About Us
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline
- Recent hands-on experience building distributed systems in one or more modern object-oriented programming languages
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency models, consensus, idempotency, concurrency, retries, timeouts, leader election, partitioning, replication, and failure handling
- Practical experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in production environments
- Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment
- Familiarity with database querying and data modeling using SQL and/or NoSQL
- Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and engineering best practices, including code review, automated testing, secure coding, and release management
- Working knowledge of agile methodologies, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security controls
- Experience building highly performant and resilient enterprise applications in a high-performance or realtime environment
- Experience working within a strong software development process covering build, test, and deployment
- Experience with modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Interest in learning about financial products
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and mental-health coverage are broad, with wellness incentives, on-site or virtual care, and an EAP offering coaching and counseling. Plan materials emphasize accessible options, including multiple medical choices and tools to manage costs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave extends up to 16 weeks for all parents, supplemented by paid Critical Caregiver Leave. Family resources include backup childcare via Bright Horizons, lactation support and milk-shipping, family-building assistance, and even a free five-month SNOO rental for newborns.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with an annual company match and automatic pay credits for most employees, with a legacy pension available to earlier hires. An Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 5% discount further supports long-term savings.
JPMorganChase Insights
What We Do
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
Why Work With Us
Our technologists work on a diverse range of solutions that include strategic technology initiatives, big data, mobile, electronic payments, machine learning, cybersecurity, enterprise cloud development, and other state-of-the-art technologies.
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