Software Engineer III - Java, Spring, Kafka

J.P. MORGAN; Scotland; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a Software Engineer III. The role involves software design and delivery within an agile team, requiring expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and a solid understanding of agile methodologies. Candidates must have experience in developing and maintaining applications in a large corporate environment. The firm values diversity and inclusion, offering a supportive work culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Knowledge of software applications and technical processes.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications.
• Analyzes large data sets to drive improvements in software applications.

Skills

Core Java 17+

Spring Boot

Microservices

RESTful Webservices

Kafka messaging

Agile methodologies

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Maven

Git

Bitbucket

Job description

Job Description

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 CIB, 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. Candidates experience is expected in analysis/design, application development, optimization and performance tuning plus working with business analysts, user experience, testers and the (financial) business.

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 applied experience
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Hands‑on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Core Java 17+, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Transaction Management using Spring, Oracle as a Database
• Spring IOC (Dependency Injection), Microservices using Spring Boot, RESTful Webservices using Spring MVC
• Kafka messaging – Preferably using Spring
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Mockito/Fitness/Cucumber Testing frameworks
• 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 etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front‑end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Beneficial to have working experience of DevOps practices and tools, including CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Knowledge of Maven, Git, Bitbucket.

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.