Software Engineer III - Java

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Software Engineer III to join their dynamic team. This role offers the chance to work on innovative technology solutions that support critical business objectives. As a key member of an agile team, you will design and deliver high-quality software, tackle complex problems, and contribute to a culture of diversity and inclusion. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies like Java, Spring Boot, and Kubernetes, while also engaging in continuous improvement practices. If you are passionate about software engineering and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java and Spring Boot with experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed messaging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver trusted technology products in a secure and scalable way.
• Analyze data sets to drive improvements and ensure coding hygiene.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL

NoSQL

C++

Rust

Golang

Education

Formal training in software engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

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 Liquidity and Account Solutions team, 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

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Conducts detailed peer reviews of code developed by colleagues
• Provides out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient applied experience
• Proficient in coding in one or more object-orientated languages, including Java 17+ with Spring Boot
• Experience of creating thread-safe concurrent code in Java or another JVM based language
• Hands-on experience with event driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka)
• Experience with Docker and running Production workloads on Kubernetes
• Experience using and designing schemas/data structures in SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Cassandra)
• Expertise in applying appropriate data structures and algorithms to solve business and technical problems
• Hands-on practical experience in secure system design, application development, automated regression testing, performance profiling and operational stability
• 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 Scrum, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with caching technologies, e.g. Redis
• Hands on experience with C++, Rust or Golang
• Knowledge of data serialisation formats (e.g. Google Protocol Buffers, Apache Avro and Parquet)
• Experience with gRPC
• Certified Kubernetes knowledge (e.g. CKAD)
• Certified public cloud technology knowledge (e.g. AWS)