Software Engineer III, Java / React, Payments Technology
JPMorganChase
Software Engineering, IT
Hong Kong
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 Payments Technology group, 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. The Full Stack Developer will contribute across the end-to-end delivery lifecycle, spanning front-end (React.js/JavaScript) and back-end (Java/Spring, microservices, integration), while also supporting production incident analysis and remediation. The role requires strong engineering discipline, ownership, and the ability to deliver change safely in a high-control financial environment.
Job responsibilities
- Delivering new functionality and enhancing existing capabilities across the full stack, from user-facing interfaces through to service and integration layers.
- Support production operations, including root-cause analysis, code remediation, performance tuning, and controlled release execution.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, QA, and globally distributed technology teams, with a focus on high-quality delivery, test automation, secure coding, and compliance with bank policies (per role description).
- Translate business requirements and functional specifications into working software, including understanding existing program logic and applying changes safely across both front-end and back-end layers. The role includes designing and building user-facing features using React.js and JavaScript, developing reusable components and front-end libraries, and integrating UI workflows with back-end services and messaging patterns.
- Requires disciplined engineering hygiene, including estimates, design and program specification updates, and version control documentation, as well as awareness of code scan findings, cyber vulnerabilities, and dependency lifecycle management (per role description). The developer will build new programs and enhance existing functionality, coordinate code reviews with leads and SMEs, and execute thorough unit testing, including front-end component tests and back-end service tests
- preparing and executing system test plans and scripts, providing technical support for QA and UAT, and producing implementation, back-out, and support handover documentation. The developer will support production implementations and provide post-implementation warranty support, including investigation and resolution of production issues and performance optimization across the full technology stack (per role description).
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Candidates must demonstrate proven experience in Java/J2EE and microservices development, with strong hands-on capability in React.js and modern JavaScript (ES6+) for building component-based user interfaces. Experience should include state management patterns (e.g., Redux or equivalent), hooks, and building performant, reusable UI components.
- The role requires experience with at least one RDBMS such as Oracle or DB2, as well as enterprise integration and batch patterns, including Apache Camel and Spring Batch. Strong knowledge of the Spring Framework and Hibernate is required, along with messaging technologies such as MQ / JMS / Kafka to support reliable message transfer processes (per role description).
- Candidates should be proficient with common engineering toolchains including IntelliJ/Eclipse, Maven, and Git, and demonstrate disciplined unit testing practices using JUnit as well as front-end testing approaches (e.g., Jest and React Testing Library or equivalent). Experience with Web Services / REST APIs is required, including integrating React front ends with back-end services and handling API contracts responsibly.
- The role requires hands-on exposure to Unix / Shell scripting, performance tuning and response time optimization, and familiarity with secure development practices including code scanning tools such as Black Duck and SonarQube (per role description). Candidates should also have an understanding of banking risk and compliance policies and prior experience building financial applications involving transaction processing, settlement, and accounting (per role description).
- Familiarity with modern front-end build and dependency tooling (e.g., npm/Yarn, Webpack or equivalent), and working knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps-aligned delivery practices are expected to support reliable delivery across environments.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong full stack development capability spanning React.js/Javascript and Java/Spring
- demonstrate ownership of tasks and outcomes, operate effectively under pressure across multiple concurrent priorities, and work collaboratively in global team structures. A practical understanding of Waterfall and Agile delivery approaches is required, alongside an eagerness to learn and adapt to evolving technologies and platform expectations (per role description). Strong awareness of UI quality considerations, including usability and performance, is expected when implementing React-based interfaces.
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Design and deliver market-leading technology products in a secure and scalable way as a seasoned member of an agile team