Software Engineer II - FICC eTrading - Java

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in London is seeking a Software Engineer II to join the FICC eTrading tech team. You will design, develop, and troubleshoot software components that support secure, stable, and scalable technology products, delivering solutions across multiple components within a product, application, or system.

You will write high‑quality code, apply secure engineering practices, and learn through collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

OOP patterns

Java

Spring

Production support

FIX protocol

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.

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the FICC eTrading tech team, you will design, develop, and troubleshoot software components that support secure, stable, and scalable technology products. You will contribute as an emerging member of an agile team, delivering software solutions across multiple components within a product, application, or system. You will write high-quality code, apply secure engineering practices, and learn through collaboration, feedback, and continuous improvement. You will consider upstream and downstream impacts as you build and enhance solutions. You will also use enterprise-authorized tooling to improve productivity while validating outputs through testing and peer review.

Job 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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.

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.

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. Build secure, scalable software on an agile team while growing your engineering skills at JPMorganChase.