Software Engineer II - FICC eTrading - Java

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan in London (City of Westminster) seeks a software engineer to design, build and improve secure, scalable trading technology across the software development lifecycle. You will learn from peers, use modern tooling, and contribute to high‑quality delivery.

If you enjoy solving problems and continuous improvement, this is a strong next step. You will work on electronic trading systems, focusing on performance, reliability and production readiness, with opportunities to contribute to

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience across system design, application development, testing and production support.
• Strong OOP/design patterns understanding and clean code practices.
• Experience with FIX protocol.
• Knowledge of fixed income products.
• Exposure to agentic AI.
• Strong coding skills in Java and Spring with solid fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deliver high-quality software solutions for electronic trading systems, from requirements through production rollout.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and resilient.
• Build and maintain low-latency, high-throughput services with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and correctness.
• Integrate services with internal and external systems, ensuring well-defined interfaces, robust error handling, and operational readiness.
• Own production outcomes by participating in on-call/support, triaging incidents, performing root-cause analysis, and driving permanent fixes.
• Improve engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and continuous refactoring to strengthen system health.
• Contribute to an inclusive team culture and actively engage in communities of practice to evaluate and adopt relevant emerging technologies.

Skills

Java

Spring

OOP/design patterns

Fixed income knowledge

FIX protocol

Agentic AI exposure

Job description

Put your engineering skills to work on products that matter. You will collaborate with an agile team to design, build, and improve secure, scalable technology. This role is built for growth, giving you hands‑on experience across the software development life cycle while strengthening your development and troubleshooting skills. You will learn from peers, use modern tooling, and contribute to high‑quality delivery. If you enjoy solving problems and continuously improving how software is built, this is a strong next step.,

• Design, build, test, and deliver high-quality software solutions for electronic trading systems, from requirements through production rollout
• Contribute to architecture decisions, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and resilient
• Build and maintain low‑latency, high‑throughput services with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and correctness
• Integrate services with internal and external systems, ensuring well‑defined interfaces, robust error handling, and operational readiness
• Own production outcomes by participating in on‑call/support, triaging incidents, performing root‑cause analysis, and driving permanent fixes
• Improve engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and continuous refactoring to strengthen system health
• Contribute to an inclusive team culture and actively engage in communities of practice to evaluate and adopt relevant emerging technologies
  Strong OOP/design patterns understanding and clean code practices
• Strong coding skills in Java and Spring with solid fundamentals
• Proven, hands‑on experience across system design, application development, testing, and production support
• Experience with FIX protocol

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of fixed income products
• Exposure to agentic AI
  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., J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.