Lead Full-Stack Engineer - React/Java | Cloud Microservices

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in its Risk Technology space. You will join an agile team building production software across the full stack, with a frontend focus. You own code quality, influence technical direction, and work across React frontends and Java/Spring Boot services.

You will design resilient, cloud-native applications, help raise engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to refine requirements before they become code.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience.
• Proficient in TypeScript and React.
• Backend experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS and distributed systems.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Write, review, and debug secure production code across frontend and backend services.
• Design and build cloud-native, microservices-based applications with zero-downtime releases.
• Apply domain modeling to structure software for clarity, testability, and long-term maintainability.
• Identify recurring failure patterns and eliminate or automate their remediation.
• Lead communities of practice to share new techniques and raise engineering standards across the org.
• Design for resilience: no single points of failure, scalable patterns, optimised data access.
• Contribute to a team culture where different perspectives improve the work.
• Work with stakeholders and clients to gather, challenge, and refine requirements before they become code.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Java

Spring Boot

HTML5

CSS

Sass

CI/CD

Automated testing

Agile

AWS

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in its Risk Technology space. You will join an agile team building production software across the full stack, with a frontend focus. You own code quality, influence technical direction, and work across React frontends and Java/Spring Boot services.

You will design resilient, cloud-native applications, help raise engineering standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders to refine requirements before they become code.