Full Stack Software Engineer III- React and JAVA

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial services firm in Glasgow seeks a Software Engineer III to join their agile team. You will play a key role in delivering technology solutions across multiple business functions, focusing on high-quality code and innovative troubleshooting. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in UI development with React and TypeScript, and backend technologies such as Java and NoSQL. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to impactful projects in a diverse team environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on proficiency in UI development with experience in React and TypeScript.
• Understanding of UX design concepts like responsive web design.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions and performs technical troubleshooting.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code.
• Gathers and analyzes data for continuous improvement.

Skills

Proficient in React

Hands-on with TypeScript

UI development experience

Java expertise

Familiarity with NoSQL

Education

Formal training in system design

Tools

JIRA

Kafka

Splunk

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 CT, 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on system design concepts and proficient applied experience
• Hands‑on proficiency in UI development with experience in React, TypeScript, CSS, Micro Frontend Development, JavaScript, optimization techniques and design patterns.
• Understanding UX design concepts like responsive web design.
• Backend Technology - Java / Spring, Kafka, NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra)
• Automation experience with Automated Functional Testing, Test Driven Development (TDD) and agile tools e.g., JIRA
• 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 and solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Unit Testing, Mocking, Performance Testing (e.g. Junit, Mokito, Blazemeter)
• Monitoring Tools (e.g. Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, etc)