
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 in Markets - Prime Finance Services responsible for designing, developing, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable Java/Spring-based solutions. Acts as a core technical contributor owning end-to-end feature delivery across the SDLC, troubleshooting, automating remediation, and improving operational stability. Mentors a globally distributed team and collaborates on architecture, data analysis, and adoption of cloud, messaging, and modern front-end technologies.
Location: GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Markets - Prime Finance Services, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
- Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
- Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications.
- Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
- Owns the end-to-end process of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
- Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development.
- Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems.
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Extensive experience with Java/Spring/Spring Boot and related technologies.
- Hands-on coding experience in Java, and understanding of Java Core concepts including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 21 while leading team of Software Engineers.
- Expertise in Databases, relational (Oracle), and No-SQL (MongoDB).
- Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle
- Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
- Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)
- Knowledge and experience building micro services.
- Exposure to cloud technologies especially hands-on with AWS or on-prem cloud like GAP/GKP
- Exposure to messaging platforms like Kafka, IBM MQ, MSK.
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies like React JS, JavaScript, typescript.




