Lead Full-Stack Engineer - React/Java Microservices

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Glasgow is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own software across the full stack with a frontend focus, delivering production-grade code in an agile environment.

You will work with React frontends and Java/Spring Boot services, drive code quality, and contribute to technical direction while collaborating with stakeholders to refine requirements. This role emphasizes cloud-native design, CI/CD, distributed systems, and scalable data access, with a culture of continuous

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and React, plus Java/Spring Boot.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and distributed systems.

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 automate remediation.
• Lead communities of practice to raise engineering standards across the org.
• Design for resilience: no single points of failure, scalable patterns, optimized data access.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and refine requirements before coding.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Java

Spring Boot

HTML5/CSS

Sass

CI/CD

Automated testing

AWS

RESTful APIs

SQL/NoSQL

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Glasgow is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to own software across the full stack with a frontend focus, delivering production-grade code in an agile environment.

You will work with React frontends and Java/Spring Boot services, drive code quality, and contribute to technical direction while collaborating with stakeholders to refine requirements. This role emphasizes cloud-native design, CI/CD, distributed systems, and scalable data access, with a culture of continuous