Java Engineer II, FICC eTrading - Low-Latency & Secure

JP Morgan Chase; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in London seeks a Software Engineer II to design, build, and improve secure, scalable technologies for electronic trading systems. You will join an agile team, contribute to architecture, and deliver high-quality software across components within a product or system.

You will write robust code, apply secure engineering practices, and learn through collaboration and continuous improvement. The role emphasizes on-call readiness and enterprise tooling integration.

Qualifications

• Strong OOP and design patterns understanding.
• Proven Java and Spring development experience.
• Experience across system design, application development, testing, and production support.
• Experience with FIX protocol.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deliver software for electronic trading systems from requirements through production rollout.
• Contribute to architecture decisions for secure, scalable, and resilient solutions.
• Build and maintain low-latency, high-throughput services focusing on performance and reliability.
• Integrate services with internal and external systems with robust interfaces and error handling.
• Own production outcomes via on-call support, incident triage, and root-cause analysis.

Skills

OOP & design patterns

Java

Spring

System design

Testing & CI/CD

Production support

FIX protocol

Tools

FIX protocol

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in London seeks a Software Engineer II to design, build, and improve secure, scalable technologies for electronic trading systems. You will join an agile team, contribute to architecture, and deliver high-quality software across components within a product or system.

You will write robust code, apply secure engineering practices, and learn through collaboration and continuous improvement. The role emphasizes on-call readiness and enterprise tooling integration.