Software Engineer III - Java / Kotlin

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services seeks a Software Engineer III to join their agile team in London. You will utilize your expertise in Java and Kotlin to enhance and deliver innovative technology products, ensuring robust and scalable solutions. Ideal candidates will have formal training in Java/Kotlin, experience with cloud platforms, and a proactive approach to building high-quality software.

Qualifications

• Proficient experience in Java and willingness to learn Kotlin.
• Experience building solutions on AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Ability to work with RESTful APIs and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable and secure solutions.
• Write unit, component, integration, and performance tests.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

TypeScript

React

AWS

RESTful APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

GitHub

Education

Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java concepts

Tools

Spring Boot

Circle Ci

Kubernetes

Kafka

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Posted:

17.06.2025

Expiry Date:

01.08.2025

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Job Description:

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

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Strategic Growth Office and a part of the Aumni 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting 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.
• Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end and performance tests.
• Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, and secure solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications, leveraging modern technologies and the best industry practices.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
• See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
• Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
• Can to take the initiative and shape their own path and a pragmatic and iterative approach to achieving our long-term goals.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java concepts and proficient applied experience (if Java, a willingness to learn Kotlin)
• Contribute to designing and building scalable and performant front-end solutions written in TypeScript using React.
• Experience building/consuming RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements.
• Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns.
• Experience with a modern CI/CD platforms such Circle Ci.
• Experience with modern version control platform such as GitHub.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Learns technologies and patterns quickly. Comfortable in uncharted waters.
• Ability to see the long term by choosing suitable technologies and approaches based on the end goals.
• High standards. We are looking for people who expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Fluency across the full engineering stack, covering TypeScript, React (including common patterns in AG-Grid and Charting libraries), Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, GCP).
• Experience building and deploying on Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform).
• Experience using Kafka.