Software Engineer II

J.P. MORGAN; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial services firm is seeking a Software Engineer II to advance their career. This role involves working within an agile team to design and deliver market-leading technology solutions. Responsibilities include developing responsive user interfaces, integrating REST APIs, and improving developer experiences through CI/CD processes. Candidates should have strong skills in JavaScript, React, and be proficient with HTML5 and CSS3. The company values diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript and React, with exposure to Vue or Angular.
• Strong skills in HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain responsive user interfaces using React.
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize insights from usage data to improve user interfaces.
• Own front-end performance, secure coding hygiene, and telemetry.

Skills

JavaScript

React

HTML5

CSS3

TypeScript

RESTful APIs

Git

Education

Formal training or certification in Software Engineering

Tools

Jest

React Testing Library

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within Risk Technology, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Design, develop, and maintain responsive user interfaces/micro frontends using React and modern JavaScript.
• Integrate REST APIs from Java and Python microservices; contribute to UI‑side architecture and shared libraries (module federation, design tokens, shared components). Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications; ensure design constraints are met in software implementation.
• Own front‑end performance, secure coding hygiene, telemetry, and error handling; instrument UIs for FRAME Observability dashboards.
• Gather, analyse, and synthesise insights from usage and operational data to drive continuous improvement of user interfaces and system integrations.
• Improve developer experience via CI/CD and testing: Bitbucket/Jules pipelines, automated unit/integration tests (Jest, React Testing Library), and static analysis (SSAP, Sonar).
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and agile ceremonies; collaborate closely with back‑end engineers and SRE to harden releases.
• Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data/code to drive refactoring and architectural improvements.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect. Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering concepts and applied experience
• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript and React (Vue or Angular experience also considered).
• Strong skills in HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design.
• Production experience with TypeScript.
• Familiarity with Python.
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs, and handling asynchronous data.
• Strong design sensibility and attention to visual detail.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, or similar).
• Proficiency with Git version control.
• Commitment to writing well-structured, clean code.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with design systems or component libraries (e.g., Material Design).
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments (AWS). Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA).
• Understanding of design patterns, modular architecture, and dependency injection.
• Experience working with Figma designs.
• Familiarity with AI-powered development tools (e.g., Microsoft Co-Pilot, Cursor, Claude Code).

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.