
Lead Software Engineer - Java
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 14 hours ago
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- City
- Glasgow
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase based in Glasgow, responsible for designing and delivering secure, scalable software solutions across the Corporate Technology Engineering Platforms and Experience team. The role focuses on hands-on Java development (Spring Boot, Spring Data), building REST APIs and integrating with databases and observability tools, while also developing React UIs and data visualizations. The role requires system design, production-quality coding, troubleshooting, and mentoring junior engineers within agile CI/CD practices.
Location: GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Are you ready to take your software engineering career to the next level? Join JPMorganChase as a Lead Software Engineer within the Corporate Technology Engineering Platforms and Experience team. As a seasoned member of an agile team, you'll design and deliver market-leading technology products securely and scalably, supporting the firm’s business objectives across multiple technical areas.
Job Responsibilities
- Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
- Create secure and high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
- Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
- Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets to continuously improve software applications and systems.
- Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data, using insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
- Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new and emerging technologies.
- Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient applied experience.
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Experience in Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data, JDBC, ETL, OpenAPI Doc, WSDL, JUnit, Kubernetes, Splunk, Dynatrace.
- Advanced in building REST API with Java, Oracle.
- Experience in developing UI applications using React.
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
- Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability.
- Responsibilities include mentoring junior team members to foster their professional growth and development.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills
- Exposure to cloud technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform) and Workflow technologies (Camunda).





