Software Engineer III - Blockchain

As a Senior Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Banking team, 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

• Implements microservices architectures using industry-standard technologies and frameworks.
• Design blockchain solutions and decentralized applications on private and public blockchain networks, with proven and verified cryptographic protocols
• Monitor and optimize the performance of microservices, ensuring high availability and responsiveness.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, providing timely solutions to maintain application stability.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Implements rigorous and thorough monitoring and testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of blockchain infrastructure

Required skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for traditional distributed systems
• Have practical experience developing on blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Solana
• Strong object oriented programming language background. Hands-on experience with application programming, backend API development and distributed microservices infrastructure in one or more programming language(s): Solidity, Java, JavaScript, Go, Python. Experience with RDBMS a plus
• Experience and understanding of the cryptographic principles underpinning blockchain technologies such as signature algorithm, key management, wallets
• Experience with cloud infrastructure services such as Amazon, Google, or Microsoft 
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience

Desired skills

• Experience in Financial Markets
• Experience designing and writing smart contracts with Solidity using Hardhat, Slither scanning etc
• Hands-on experience with AWS, EKS, Docker
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools for continuous integration and deployment
• Familiarity with blockchain interoperability solutions