Lead Software Engineer - Glasgow

Hackajob Ltd; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackajob Ltd is partnering with JPMorganChase to hire a Lead Software Engineer. The role focuses on building intelligent, cloud-native systems at scale, combining software engineering, AI, and cloud infrastructure.

You will own end-to-end delivery from requirements to production support, shaping engineering standards and driving reusable patterns across teams. The position emphasizes leadership, architecture design, and bringing enterprise-grade AI practices into daily workflows while

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Proven track record delivering software end-to-end with ownership.
• Strong Python for production services with testing and packaging.
• Relational DB design, SQL tuning, indexing, transactions.
• Experience building AI solutions with LLMs in production.
• API and microservices design with security and observability.
• Hands-on multi-cloud (AWS preferred) and distributed systems.
• Terraform for infrastructure as code and remote state management.
• DevOps practices including CI/CD and Kubernetes deployments.
• Experience evaluating AI outputs for correctness, safety, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives end-to-end with minimal supervision.
• Design and implement AI solutions using LLMs and agent patterns.
• Build guardrails, evaluation and monitoring for LLM systems.
• Design, build, and operate REST and gRPC APIs and microservices.
• Apply resilience engineering with timeouts, retries, circuit breakers.
• Maintain well-tested Python services and automation.
• Own data design and schema implementations with SQL optimization.
• Manage IaC with Terraform, Kubernetes deployments, and multi-cloud CI/CD.
• Drive engineering excellence, code quality, and incident analysis.
• Mentor engineers and establish delivery standards.
• Promote enterprise AI practices and reusable patterns across teams.

Skills

Python

LLMs in prod

Distributed systems

Leadership

CI/CD

SQL & DB design

Agent patterns

Security patterns

Multi-cloud AWS

OpenAPI & REST

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

gRPC

Protobuf

OpenAPI

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
• Proven track record leading software delivery end-to-end with strong ownership and the ability to execute independently across the full development lifecycle
• Strong Python software engineering skills for building production-grade services and automation, with solid testing, packaging, and maintainability practices
• Strong understanding of relational databases and SQL, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and transaction management
• Demonstrated experience building AI solutions using large language models in production environments, including quality assurance, safety controls, evaluation, observability, and cost management
• Strong API and microservices engineering experience, including service design, contract definition, security patterns, performance tuning, and distributed system observability
• Hands-on multi-cloud experience (AWS preferred) with strong distributed systems fundamentals and a portability-minded approach to design
• Strong Terraform skills for infrastructure-as-code, module design, environment management, and remote state handling
• Working knowledge of DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and Kubernetes deployments
• Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment, with demonstrated ability to critically evaluate, validate, and refine AI-generated outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; ability to guide peers on safe and effective usage within team practices
• Experience designing and building agentic architectures, including tool use, planning and execution loops, and multi-step workflow orchestration
• Experience building reusable internal libraries or frameworks that accelerate team delivery and promote engineering consistency
• Familiarity with advanced LLM evaluation techniques, including automated benchmarking, red-teaming, and latency/cost profiling in production
• Experience with gRPC and Protobuf-based service design in distributed, high-throughput environments
• Exposure to platform or developer experience engineering, including internal tooling, shared infrastructure patterns, or delivery enablement frameworks

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives end-to-end - from requirements clarification and architecture through implementation, testing, release, and production support - with strong ownership and minimal supervision
• Design and implement AI solutions using large language models and modern agent patterns, including prompting strategies, tool/function calling, retrieval patterns, routing, and memory/state management where applicable
• Build guardrails, evaluation frameworks, monitoring pipelines, and cost/latency optimizations for production LLM-based systems
• Design, build, and operate REST and gRPC APIs and microservices, defining clear contracts using OpenAPI and Protobuf while ensuring backward compatibility, authentication, rate limiting, and observability
• Apply resilience engineering patterns, including timeouts, retries, and circuit breakers, to ensure reliable, production-grade service behavior
• Build and maintain well-tested, maintainable Python services and automation with clear packaging, dependency management, and architectural standards
• Own data design and implementation, including schema design, data access patterns, and complex SQL optimization aligned to performance and reliability requirements
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, supporting containerized deployments via Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines across multi-cloud environments
• Drive engineering excellence across code quality, testing strategy, performance, reliability, and operational rigor, including leading root-cause analysis for complex production issues
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and establish standards for delivery and engineering practices across the team
• Drive team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing consistent validation standards and promote reuse of effective patterns across the team
• 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 automations

Technologies

• AI
• API
• AWS
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Git
• Support
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• Marketing
• OpenAPI
• Python
• REST
• SQL
• Security
• Terraform
• gRPC
• microservices

More

hackajob is partnering directly with us at JPMorganChase to hire for this Lead Software Engineer role. We are building the next generation of intelligent, cloud-native systems, working at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and cloud infrastructure to deliver solutions at scale. This role offers the opportunity to grow your craft, shape engineering standards, and make a measurable impact on how we build and operate technology. Our professionals in Corporate Functions support a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing, helping set our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success. We are a global leader in financial services, committed to a first-class business in a first-class way, trusted long-term partnerships, and a diverse, inclusive workplace.

last updated 36 week of 2026