Software Engineer III - Java Developer - Execute Commodities & ETFs

JPMorganChase; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in London is seeking a Software Engineer III to join a dynamic team. This role involves executing software solutions and delivering high-quality code within an agile framework. Candidates are expected to have strong technical skills, particularly in Java, and experience with cloud technologies. The firm emphasizes diversity and inclusion as a key part of its culture.

Benefits

Diversity and Inclusion initiatives

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with software development life cycle.
• Hands-on experience in a large corporate environment.
• Knowledge of cloud, AI, machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Execute software solutions and design critical technology.
• Produce architecture for complex applications.
• Analyze and develop visualizations from large data sets.

Skills

Software engineering concepts

Problem-solving

Technical troubleshooting

Agile methodologies

Coding hygiene

Continuous learning

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Java

Python

Linux

Cloud technologies

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 III at JPMorganChase within the Digital Markets Execution 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.

Job 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
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and formal applied experience
• Hands-on developer responsible for building and supporting services for our market-leading analytics and trading solutions
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Perform technical analysis of client requirements, participate in estimation, planning, code reviews, architecture design sessions and retrospectives
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Must be a passionate and well-rounded technologist, willing to continuously learn and improve your skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Excellent understanding of Java fundamentals, OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies and computer networks
• Experience in building high-performance latency-sensitive Java applications
• Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting software running in Linux environment, familiarity with containers and cloud architectures and services
• Experience working with numerous globally distributed engineers and stakeholders, strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Understanding of full software development lifecycle and agile approach
• Familiarity with Python, front-end technologies
• Practical experience with the FIX messaging protocol and QuickFIX/J
• Familiarity with Hazelcast or other distributed computing platforms

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'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.