Lead Java Engineer — Payments Tech & Cloud Platforms

JP Morgan Chase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is hiring a Java Lead Software Engineer for the Payments Technology Regulatory Reporting team. You will design and deliver secure, scalable cloud technology products and collaborate with agile teams to meet business objectives.

The role spans multiple technical areas, enabling contributions to team and firm-wide goals while nurturing inclusion, respect, and opportunity in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java backend development and Spring Boot in production environments.
• Proven ability in system design for scalable, secure services using microservices and API-driven architectures.
• Strong engineering fundamentals including object-oriented programming, design patterns, concurrency, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Solid testing discipline encompassing unit and integration testing, automation, and code quality practices.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL, including understanding of data modeling and transactional concepts.
• Familiarity with agile delivery and the ability to develop within enterprise controls and standards.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, security best practices, and observability and monitoring.
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate and validate AI-generated outputs.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations.

Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end software delivery including design, development, testing, deployment, and production troubleshooting for Java/Spring Boot services and supporting components
• Build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs with a strong focus on performance, resiliency, and long-term maintainability
• Create design artifacts for complex workflows, covering processing logic, dependency management, failure handling, service-level objectives, and resiliency patterns
• Apply distributed systems best practices including idempotency, retries, timeouts, back-pressure, and graceful degradation
• Collaborate with product, quality assurance, site reliability engineering, and partner engineering teams to deliver high-quality, production-ready solutions
• Improve engineering standards through code reviews, test strategy, continuous integration and delivery improvements, observability, and operational readiness
• Contribute to internal libraries and engineering communities; evaluate and adopt emerging technologies where appropriate to drive team productivity
• Leverage enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity, while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation

Skills

Java backend development

Spring Boot

Microservices architecture

API design

Code reviews

CI/CD

Observability

AI-assisted tooling

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

SQL

Job description

JPMorganChase is hiring a Java Lead Software Engineer for the Payments Technology Regulatory Reporting team. You will design and deliver secure, scalable cloud technology products and collaborate with agile teams to meet business objectives.

The role spans multiple technical areas, enabling contributions to team and firm-wide goals while nurturing inclusion, respect, and opportunity in a dynamic environment.