Senior Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Developer Java/Kafka

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join their dynamic Asset and Wealth Management Technology team. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your expertise in Java Spring and cloud-native microservices to develop and deliver innovative technology products that meet the highest standards of quality and security. You will be responsible for guiding technical teams, influencing product design, and enhancing operational processes. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a collaborative environment that values diversity and inclusion, while working on cutting-edge solutions that drive business success.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software engineering with a focus on Java and cloud technologies.
• Hands-on expertise in building RESTful services and microservices.
• Strong background in distributed systems and operational stability.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and deliver high-quality cloud-native applications.
• Drive decisions influencing product design and application functionality.
• Contribute to engineering community and advocate for best practices.

Skills

Java Spring

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Cloud-native microservices

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

CI/CD (Jenkins)

GitHub

Distributed system design

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub

Kubernetes

Postgres

DynamoDB

Job description

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Job Description

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 Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management Technology team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, high quality and secure solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications, leveraging modern technologies and the best industry practices.
• Practices and promotes a rich testing strategy including but not limited to unit, integration, component level and E2E functional testing.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of specialty.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of latest architecture trends.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience.
• Practical expertise in Java Spring / Spring Boot.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering distributed complex system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience building solutions on AWS and Terraform.
• Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements and stream processing with Kafka.
• Experience with a modern CI/CD like Jenkins.
• Experience with modern version control platform such as GitHub.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience driving requirement refinement with product and working with stakeholders.
• Experience building and deploying on Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform).
• Experience using both relational databases (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational databases (e.g. DynamoDB).

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.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors, and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families, and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus, and realize their goals.