Principal Software Engineer - API Marketplace at JPMorgan Chase
Seattle, WA
$232,750–$325,000from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and maintaining an API Marketplace platform within consumer banking. Day-to-day work spans designing scalable distributed systems, writing and reviewing production Java code, guiding cross-functional teams on architecture, and shaping responsible use of AI and GenAI capabilities. The role suits an experienced engineer comfortable acting as a subject-matter authority, mentoring others, and engaging directly with senior stakeholders.
Senior level · 7+ years · Seattle, WA · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 570 people in the Seattle, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 430–740
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists two locations with identical salary bands: Seattle, WA and Jersey City, NJ ($232,750–$325,000/year). The Seattle CBSA is used as primary; Jersey City falls within the New York–Newark–Jersey City CBSA (35620).
The title says 'Principal' but the requirements (7+ years, senior IC scope) are consistent with a Senior engineer. The Principal band at JPMorganChase is an internal leveling convention rather than the org-wide technical authority that the seniority rubric reserves for Principal.
Cloud experience is required but framed with 'e.g., AWS, GCP, private cloud' — AWS is used as the primary skill with GCP and Azure listed as alternatives, reflecting that any major cloud platform satisfies the gate.
The JD spells 'Sprint Boot' — this is clearly a typo for 'Spring Boot', extracted as such.
GraphQL and MCP appear under the Preferred qualifications section alongside API Marketplace domain knowledge.
Agentic AI appears under Preferred qualifications as 'a plus'.
Product Owner / Product Manager experience is listed as a required qualification but names no specific technology or tool, so it is omitted per the skills extraction rules (it is a role/methodology, not a named technology).
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