Software Engineer III - Search Technologies, LLM, ElasticSearch, AWS

Job Description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for experienced software engineers to contribute your skills in enabling enterprise-wide content discovery.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Employee Platforms, Enterprise Search team, you will be instrumental in designing and implementing the firm's next-generation search capabilities. Your role will involve developing scalable backend systems to enhance enterprise-wide content discoverability, allowing users to access relevant insights across web, app, and chat platforms. By collaborating closely with product, data, and design teams, you will contribute to improving content rank relevancy, optimizing search performance, and integrating AI-promoten insights and tuning.

Job responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services and APIs for enterprise search applications using Java, Python, and Spring Boot.
• Build and deploy cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS, Terraform, and containerization best practices to ensure scalability and resilience.
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement search strategies that optimize crawl, rank, and indexation pipelines.Contribute to search tuning and relevancy improvements, incorporating ranking algorithms, metadata enrichment, and semantic search techniques.
• Integrate data extraction and analytics capabilities to deliver actionable insights and improve user experience.
• Ensure secure and high-quality production code, system reliability, maintainability, and performance through code reviews, automation, and adherence to best engineering practices.
• Participate in technical design discussions and propose innovative solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Hands on experience in backend engineering in large-scale, distributed systems.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, and Spring Boot for backend service development.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services (Lambda, EKS, S3, ECS, etc.) and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Experience with search technologies (ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, Solr, or similar).
• Deep understanding of API design, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and observability tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Solid understanding of DevSecOps processes such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM)-based search solutions, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or semantic search models. Understanding of SEO principles, ranking models, and user behavior analytics in search contexts.
• Working knowledge of data processing and metadata extraction pipelines.
• Prior experience in a regulated enterprise environment (financial services or similar) a plus.
• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.