Software Engineer II

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Software Engineer to enhance and deliver technology products. This role involves developing solutions, driving technical evaluations, and ensuring application stability with an emphasis on API management. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the financial sector and advanced skills in software development. Join a dynamic agile team to push technological boundaries.

Qualifications

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Advanced understanding of CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Develops secure high-quality production code and reviews codes.
• Leads evaluation sessions and drives community awareness of technologies.

Skills

API Management

Application Development

Automation

Cloud Native Experience

Agile Methodologies

Software Development Life Cycle

Education

Formal training or certification on API Management Platform

Tools

APIGEE

Kong API Gateway

AWS

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, Payments Technology, youare 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of 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
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Expand the capabilities and adoption of the modern API gateway for external and internal Payments Web APIs
• High attention to non-functional requirements to ensure stability, security and scalability of the API infrastructure
• Active participation in highly energy global agile team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on API Management Platform concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience
• Professional experience in API management technology e.g APIGEE, Kong, Mulesoft
• Strong understand of OpenAPI Specification (OAS) for RESTful APIs

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS (ECS, EKS, MKS)
• Kong API Gateway
• Experience with Performance and Soak Testing
• Golang programming language
• Lua programming language