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Interview Tip
In a typical interview you’ll be asked “why are you interested in this role?” or “why are you interested in working at our company?”. Use this interview tip to explain why you want the job.
“Why are you interested in this role?”
I recently participated in JPMorganChase’s job simulation on the Forage platform, and it was incredibly useful to understand what it might be like to participate on a backend engineering team at JPMorganChase.
I worked on a project to build out key components of the Midas transaction-processing system, integrating Kafka, a SQL database, and an external REST API into a cohesive Spring Boot service. I practiced using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and SQL, and built my backend development and distributed systems skills in a real-world context.
Doing this program confirmed that I really enjoy working on scalable system design, data processing pipelines, and API-driven architectures, and I'm excited to apply these skills on a backend engineering team at a company like JPMorganChase.



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JPMorganChase Software Engineering Job Simulation on Forage - February 2026
Integrated Kafka into a Spring Boot microservice to consume and deserialize high-volume transaction messages using a configurable topic and embedded Kafka test framework.
Implemented transaction validation and persistence logic with Spring Data JPA and an H2 SQL database, including entity modeling and balance updates across relational User records.
Connected the service to an external REST Incentive API using RestTemplate, processing incentive responses and incorporating them into transactional workflows.
Developed a REST endpoint for querying user balances, returning JSON responses through a Spring controller while maintaining clean architectural boundaries.
Verified system behavior using Maven test suites and debugger-driven inspection, ensuring reliability across message ingestion, database operations, and external API interactions.
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