Software Engineer II

J.P. Morgan; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Software Engineer II to join their Technology Division in Glasgow. Successful candidates will enhance and deliver software components for state-of-the-art technology products, gaining invaluable skills and experience. This role involves coding, troubleshooting, and participating in a culture of diversity and inclusion while leveraging industry-best methodologies.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts needed.
• Practical experience in system design and application development required.
• Knowledge of modern programming languages is essential.

Responsibilities

• Executes standard software solutions with design and coding tasks.
• Applies technical troubleshooting to ensure stable application development.
• Analyzes data sets to contribute to decision-making in software development.

Skills

System design

Application development

Debugging

Hands-on experience

Technical troubleshooting

Agile methodologies

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

AWS

React

Databricks

Java

Job description

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Technology Division, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Job responsibilities

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development
• Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expanding applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages
• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to cloud technologies e.g AWS
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies e.g React
• Exposure to cloud technologies e.g AWS
• Exposure to Databricks and building workflows.
• Knowledge of Java