Low-Latency Java Senior Associate - Software Engineer III

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services firm as a Software Engineer III, focusing on building high-performance Java applications within an agile team. Contribute to innovative solutions for the Corporate & Investment Bank's Payments business, enhancing client liquidity management. Collaborate globally, participate in technical analysis, and support junior colleagues while ensuring code quality and operational stability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise software development.
• Hands-on experience with event driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance, latency-sensitive code.
• Collaborate effectively as part of a global team.
• Provide technical leadership to small engineering sub-teams.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Multi-threading

Messaging Technologies

Linux

Communication

Agile

Kafka

Tools

JUnit

Mockito

Spring Test Framework

Redis

Terraform

CockroachDB

ReactJs

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Job Description

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Liquidity and Account Solutions team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

JPMorgan's Liquidity and Account Solutions Technology team is seeking highly motivated Java engineers to join our global, diverse technology organization. We focus on providing modern solutions to support the Corporate & Investment Bank's Payments business. Our critical systems manage client liquidity in real-time, matching available funds to support demands for cash.

We are building the next-generation core wholesale banking platform, designed to operate continuously at a global scale. This platform will support hundreds of millions of accounts and respond in milliseconds to thousands of requests. As a hands-on developer, you will be responsible for building and supporting services for our market-leading liquidity business. You will contribute features, enhancements and bug fixes - ensuring our codebase remains modern, well-structured and robust.

You will collaborate with colleagues to perform technical analysis of client requirements, participate in estimation, planning, code reviews, architecture design sessions and retrospectives. This role offers the opportunity to learn about liquidity from colleagues, stakeholders and extensive training resources. You will have the chance to grow your skills through our curated technical development programs and dedicated training days.

This exciting role provides you with the opportunity to see the direct impact of your contributions on the liquidity business and receive client feedback from around the globe. While banking experience is not required, you must be a passionate and well-rounded technologist, eager to continuously learn and enhance your skills.

Job responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance, latency-sensitive code, incorporate security requirements and reviewing code written by team members using software engineering best practices
• Write secure, high-quality code and automated tests
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by code
• Identify opportunities to eliminate recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Participate in communities of practice across the group to drive awareness, consistency and adoption of modern technologies
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Collaborate effectively as part of a global team
• Provide technical leadership to small engineering sub-teams focused on the delivery of a small epic by transforming requirements into stories and a build plan
• Support junior colleagues in their technical growth
• Provide out of hours application support and coordinate of Production releases

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience in enterprise software development
• Excellent understanding of Java fundamentals and frameworks (Spring Boot), OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies and computer networks
• Experience in building high-performance, latency-sensitive Java applications
• Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting software running in a Linux environment, familiarity with the Linux operating system, system utilities, containers and cloud architectures and services
• Experience with modern testing tools (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test Framework)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience working with globally distributed engineers and stakeholders
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile approach
• Hands-on experience with event driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies (Kafka)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience another statically compiled language like Golang, Rust or C++
• Experience with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers
• Experience with caching technologies, e.g. Redis
• Experience with infrastructure as code software, e.g. Terraform
• Experience using and designing schemas/data structures in resilient SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. CockroachDB)
• Familiarity with front-end technologies, like ReactJs

Certified Kubernetes and public cloud knowledge (e.g. CKAD and AWS certifications)

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.