Software Engineer II - Cloud Platform Engineering - Chase UK

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan UK is seeking a Software Engineer to join the International Consumer Bank, delivering reliable, customer-focused digital banking experiences. You will work in a distributed, diverse team, applying modern Java/Spring, cloud, and DevOps practices while ensuring security and resiliency across services.

You will contribute to full‑stack development, automation, and incident management, partnering with cross‑functional teams to meet evolving customer needs and business goals.

Qualifications

• Experience with the full software development lifecycle.
• Proficiency in Java 17+ and Spring Boot.
• Experience with AWS and Terraform.
• REST API design and integration knowledge.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD.
• Front-end familiarity with TypeScript/React preferred.
• Security and resiliency awareness in design and coding.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to enhance the developer experience, providing tools and infrastructure that support agile methodologies and CI/CD.
• Identify problems, propose solutions, and execute software design, development, operations, and technical troubleshooting.
• Develop secure, high-quality full stack production code, and review and debug code.
• Support the products you build through the full lifecycle, including production support and incident management.
• Collaborate with teams to understand the functional requirements of existing complex business applications.
• Apply knowledge of SDLC toolchain and AI coding assist tools to improve quality, delivery speed, and productivity, with peer review and secure coding standards.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new technologies.
• Promote a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Framework

REST APIs

Cloud AWS

CI/CD

Kubernetes

TypeScript React

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

AWS

CI/CD tools

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

At the company, we understand that customers seek exceptional value and a seamless experience from a trusted financial institution. That's why we launched Chase UK to transform digital banking with intuitive and enjoyable customer journeys. With a strong foundation of trust established by millions of customers in the US, we have been rapidly expanding our presence in the UK and soon across Europe. We have been building the bank of the future from the ground up, offering you the chance to join us and make a significant impact.

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will play a crucial role in this initiative, dedicated to delivering an outstanding banking experience to our customers. You will work in a collaborative environment as part of a diverse, inclusive, and geographically distributed team. We are seeking individuals with a curious mindset and a keen interest in new technology. Our engineers are naturally solution-oriented and possess an interest in the financial sector and focus on addressing our customer needs. We work in teams focused on improving the reliability, resilience, observability, and operability of customer-facing digital banking services. We build automation, define measurable reliability practices, reduce operational friction, and partner with engineering teams to ensure services are designed, delivered, and operated with reliability in mind.

Job Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to enhance the developer experience, providing tools and infrastructure that support agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment.


• Identify problems, propose solutions, and execute software design, development, operations, and technical troubleshooting.


• Develop secure, high-quality full stack production code, and review and debug code.


• Support the products you build through the full lifecycle, including production support and incident management.


• Collaborate with teams to understand the functional requirements of existing complex business applications.


• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity, while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards.


• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.


• Promote a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Practical knowledge of the full software development lifecycle, including system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.


• Ability to develop, debug, and maintain code using modern programming languages and database querying languages.


• Good understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals, concurrency, memory management, and object-oriented programming paradigms with hands-on experience with Spring and server-side frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot) and good API design skills.


• Best understanding of DevOps practices and framework


• Knowledge of integration technologies such as REST APIs.


• Experience with Public Cloud services in Production (we use AWS).


• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or other).


• Experience in architecting, supporting, and implementing CICD migrations.


• Preferrable to have experience with front end languages and frameworks such as TypeScript and React.


• Practical cloud native experience preferably on AWS


• Solid understanding of agile practices, including continuous integration and delivery, application resiliency, and security.


• Understanding of responsible engineering practice, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with modern back-end technologies particularly with Enterprise Java and Spring boot framework


• Knowledge of UX design concepts such as responsive web design.


• Understanding of microservices architecture, Debugging expertise in Kubernetes


• Understanding of Infrastructure Tools, preferably Terraform, and AWS services understanding.

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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

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.