Lead Software Engineer - Java

J.P. Morgan; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Glasgow seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join their agile team. This role involves implementing critical technology solutions and leading a team of developers. Proficiency in Java and agile methodologies is essential, along with hands-on experience in relevant tools like Git, Jenkins, and Spring. The candidate will oversee the entire SDLC process to ensure successful delivery of features.

Qualifications

• Proficient in advanced software engineering concepts and practices.
• Hands-on coding experience in Java up to version 17.
• Ability to lead a team of software engineers.

Responsibilities

• Implement critical technology solutions across multiple domains.
• Lead a team while providing guidance on coding and design.
• Own feature deliveries through the full software development life cycle.

Skills

Java

Agile methodologies

Software Development Life Cycle

Git/Bitbucket

Spring/Spring Boot

Microservice architectures

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Jira

Jenkins

Gradle

Maven

Job description

Overview

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank organization, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

• Works at code level with Java while leading a team of developers and provides regular coaching, conduct code and design reviews

• Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team

• Develops specific enhancements and build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements

• Owns the end-to-end process of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support

• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

• Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups

• Provides third level production support on a rotation basis – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience

• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and tools including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven

• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, Security, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks

• Hands-on coding experience in Java, and understanding of Java Core concepts including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17 while leading team of Software Engineers

• Expertise in Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST based services

• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities

• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs

• Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning

• Demonstrated ability in supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues while working in a third level advanced support capacity

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to cloud technologies, Splunk, Apache Kafka, Grafana