Software Engineer II / III

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader is hiring a Software Engineer II/III in Glasgow. You will design and deliver secure, scalable data solutions as part of the Strategic Data team. Strong proficiency in back end development, especially Java and Spring Boot, is required. Join a diverse team to foster an inclusive culture while working on innovative software solutions.

Qualifications

• Proficient advanced experience in back end development.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and troubleshoot software solutions.
• Create secure, high-quality production code.
• Analyse large data sets to improve applications.

Skills

Back end development

Java

Spring Boot

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Formal training in back end development

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Job description

Overview

Be part of a dynamic team where your distinctive skills will contribute to a winning culture and team. We have opportunities for a Software Engineer II and a Software Engineer III within our Strategic Data team based in our Glasgow Technology Centre.

As a Software Engineer II/III at JPMorgan Chase within the Strategic data team in International Regulatory Reporting, you will serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted data collection, storage, access, and analytics solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining critical software applications and architectures across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm\'s business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and troubleshoots innovative software solutions.
• Creates secure, high-quality production code and maintains system-integrated algorithms. Writes clean, well-documented, testable code.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met.
• Analyses and visualises large data sets to improve software applications and systems.
• Identifies hidden data patterns to enhance coding practices and system architecture.
• Engages with software engineering communities to explore emerging technologies.
• Fosters a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Develops and maintains microservices using Java with Spring Boot.
• Builds scalable REST APIs and backend components.
• Deploys, monitors, and manages services in AWS, especially EKS (Kubernetes).
• Demonstrates familiarity with messaging queues like Kafka, SQS, etc.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on back end development concepts and proficient applied experience
• Proficient advanced experience in back end development in any one of the languages such as Java, Go, Kotlin. Willingness to work on backend stack focused mainly on Java, Spring Boot.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability.
• Previous experience in developing, debugging and maintaining code in large distributed systems.
• Proficient in Spring Boot and associated ecosystem (JPA, Spring Security, Hibernate).
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency and security.
• Solid grasp on SQL and NoSQL databases.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on back end development concepts and proficient applied experience
• Solid understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, configuration management utilities like Helm, Kustomize.

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.