Software Engineer III - Full Stack Java / Kafka

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Senior Software Engineer III specializing in Java and Kafka to enhance and deliver advanced technology products. This role involves developing scalable cloud-native applications and requires expertise in AWS, Spring Boot, and modern CI/CD practices. Join a dynamic agile team committed to enhancing technology solutions within the Asset and Wealth Management sector.

Qualifications

• Formal training in software engineering concepts.
• Practical experience with Java Spring Boot.
• Hands-on with cloud solutions and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance for the business and technical teams.
• Deliver secure cloud-native microservice applications.
• Contribute to software development life cycle best practices.

Skills

Java Spring

Cloud-Native Applications

RESTful APIs

AWS

Kafka

CI/CD

Microservices

GitHub

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Kubernetes

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Posted:

29.06.2025

Expiry Date:

13.08.2025

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Job Description:

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management Technology team you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, high quality and secure solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications, leveraging modern technologies and the best industry practices.
• Practices and promotes a rich testing strategy including but not limited to unit, integration, component level and E2E functional testing.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of specialty.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of latest architecture trends
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
• Practical expertise in Java Spring / Spring Boot .
• Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering distributed complex system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience building solutions on AWS and Terraform.
• Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements and stream processing with Kafka.
• Experience with a modern CI/CD like Jenkins
• Experience with modern version control platform such as GitHub.
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience driving requirement refinement with product and working with Stakeholders.
• Experience building and deploying on Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform).