Software Engineer III - Full Stack Java / Kafka

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join J.P. Morgan as a Senior Software Engineer in the Asset and Wealth Management Technology team. You'll contribute to building scalable cloud-native solutions, leveraging modern technologies like Java Spring and AWS, and participate actively in diverse project initiatives to drive significant business impact. If you possess strong technical expertise and a collaborative spirit, we invite you to be part of our agile team, dedicated to creating innovative technology solutions that enhance client wealth management.

Qualifications

• Formal training in software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience required.
• Experience building solutions on AWS and Terraform is essential.
• Hands-on experience delivering complex system designs and operational stability is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver scalable, high-quality cloud-native applications.
• Provide technical guidance across teams and drive product design decisions.
• Contribute to the engineering community by promoting best development practices.

Skills

Java Spring

AWS

RESTful APIs

Microservices

Terraform

Kafka

CI/CD

GitHub

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

Kubernetes

Postgres

DynamoDB

Job description

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).
• Experience using both relational databases (e.g. Postgres) non-relational databases (e.g. DyanamoDB).

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

J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.

Our Asset and Wealth Management division is driven by innovators like you who are driven to create technology solutions that make us work more efficiently and help our businesses grow. It's our mission to efficiently take care of our clients' wealth, helping them get, and remain properly invested. Our team of agile technologists thrive in a cloud-native environment that values continuous learning using a data-centric approach in developing innovative technology solutions.