Software Engineer III - Senior Application Performance Engineer

Job Description
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 JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector, Enterprise Technology, 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

• Troubleshoot performance issues in collaboration with architecture and development teams. Performs root cause analysis and drives issues to appropriate resolutions.
• Do the capacity planning for the applications and present it to the management. Draft performance test artifacts, including test plans and test summaries.
• Tuning and debugging application, identifying modern data pipeline issues, and providing recommendation for them.
• Do the Application Performance Monitoring for Response time, throughput, Network utilization, CPU utilization and Memory utilization. Forecasting Application capacity and provide guidance on increase application efficiency. Able to setup monitoring for the application connection pool setup, Memory, CPU utilization. Understanding design principles and implementing and monitoring caching techniques in application side.
• Leading the optimization of distributed system, micro service architectures, Cloud or Hybrid application infrastructure. Able to provide insight into JVM (multithreading & synchronization, memory management & garbage collection), and ability to analyze application with JVM tools. Experience of thread and heap dump, GC log analysis, Java profiling and Profiler/Monitoring tools. Circuit break implementation in micro services applications.
• Create performance testing scripts using JMETER and/or LoadRunner.
• Execute the performance test scenarios through Blazemeter and/or LoadRunner.
• Enhance/customize the performance test scripts as per requirement.
• Analyze and present the performance test results.
• Establish performance testing priorities and communicate priorities to the leads
• Raise performance test defects and track for closure.
• Leverage APM tools such as AppD or DynaTrace to analyze performance bottlenecks.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Must have good knowledge more than 3 years of applied knowledge of the application design and architecture, well versed with performance engineering. Should be able discover potential performance issues early in the development cycle.
• A complete understanding of software development life cycle and performance engineering concepts like caching, connection pool management, CPU/Memory/IO utilization, response time/throughput analysis.
• Hands on experience in various performance testing tools: JMeter, BlazeMeter, LoadRunner.
• Experience with Performance Monitoring Tools (i.e., dynaTrace, AppDynamics, etc.).
• Strong knowledge and experience with profiling application end to end performance and identifying application and hardware/operating system bottlenecks. A strong knowledge of Monitoring, profiling tools, instrumentation that allow for analysis of system health and potential bottlenecks and doing the root cause analysis. (Must have knowledge of tool like Appdynamics, Dynatrace, Geneos, Cloud watch, Data dog, Jprofiler.)
• Strong hands-on experience in understanding the architecture of java-based application and finding the bottleneck and providing solution for same. Experience working in an Agile environment preferred. Service virtualization and network condition testing experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong experience in application design, architecture, development, tuning, performance optimization and bottleneck root cause investigation and fixing.
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies

About Us
JPMorgan Chase & Co., 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 recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents and perspectives that 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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs. (If you are a US or Canadian applicant with a disability and wish to request an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us by calling the Accessibility Line (US and Canada Only) 1-866-777-4690 and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed.)
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and 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.
JPMorgan Chase 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.