Senior Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack Developer Java/Kafka

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global financial services firm as a Senior Lead Software Engineer. You will be part of an agile team focused on delivering top-notch technology products. Your expertise will drive significant business impact through innovative solutions and best practices in software engineering.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and support to business and technical teams.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, high-quality solutions.
• Implement comprehensive testing strategies.

Skills

Java Spring

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

AWS

Terraform

Kafka

GitHub

Education

Computer Science

Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Postgres

DynamoDB

Job description

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 essential member of an agile team dedicated to developing and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address diverse challenges across multiple technologies and applications, driving significant business impact.

Job responsibilities

1. Provide technical guidance and support to the business, technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
2. Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, high-quality, and secure solutions using cloud-native microservice architecture, leveraging modern technologies and best practices.
3. Implement and promote comprehensive testing strategies including unit, integration, component, and end-to-end functional testing.
4. Drive decisions related to product design, application functionality, and technical operations.
5. Contribute to problem-solving beyond one's immediate area of expertise.
6. Actively participate in the engineering community by advocating for firmwide frameworks, tools, and SDLC practices.
7. Influence peers and decision-makers to adopt latest architecture trends.
8. Foster a team culture grounded in diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with advanced practical experience.
• Proficiency in Java Spring / Spring Boot.
• Experience developing RESTful APIs and microservices with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining distributed complex systems.
• Experience working with AWS and Terraform.
• Experience with globally distributed applications requiring strict consistency and stream processing with Kafka.
• Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Proficiency with version control platforms like GitHub.
• Background in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related technical fields.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in requirement refinement and stakeholder collaboration.
• Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of 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 prominent clients worldwide. Our approach emphasizes building trusted, long-term partnerships to help clients achieve their objectives.

We value diversity and inclusion, and are committed to equal opportunity employment, accommodating religious practices, mental health, and physical disabilities.

About The Team

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management offers leading investment management and private banking solutions, serving individuals, advisors, and institutions globally. Our teams focus on a spectrum of asset classes and personalized wealth strategies.