Software Engineer III - Public Cloud Engineering

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Public Cloud Engineering in IAM. You will design secure, scalable platform services, write production code, and contribute to architecture across cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP).

The role focuses on modern engineering practices, collaboration, and delivering reliable, maintainable solutions aligned with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience with Java, Spring, Go and Python, plus Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on cloud-native experience building and operating services at scale on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Willingness to engage with AI tooling and apply engineering judgement.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure, scalable platform services as part of an agile team.
• Write, review, and maintain production code across stacks with quality standards.
• Produce architecture/design artifacts and ensure design constraints are met.
• Analyze large data sets and contribute to continuous improvement of applications.

Skills

Java

Spring

Go

Python

Terraform

Kubernetes

Test Driven Development

Behavior Driven Development

Automation

Cloud Native

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

About our team

We are expanding our Public Cloud Engineering organization into EMEA region by establishing a new Identity and Access Management (IAM) team to better server our customers and strengthen collaboration across our global engineering teams.

This is a unique opportunity to join at the ground level and help shape a new team, it's technical direction, engineering culture, and operational excellence. The team will own critical Identity domains that supports our platform across multiple public cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

We foster a culture of continuous improvement, growth, and talent development by investing in strong engineering practices, hands-on delivery, coaching and cross-team collaboration. We believe great platforms are built by empowered teams that learn, innovate, and continuously raise bar for technical excellence.

As a Senior Software Engineer at the company in Public Cloud Engineering, you will design and deliver secure, stable, scalable platform services and features as part of an agile team. You will write and validate code, contribute to system design, and deliver reliable, maintainable, well-architected solutions across multiple technical areas 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.
• Write, review, and maintain production code across stacks - whether that code originates from you, a teammate, or an AI tool. Apply engineering judgement to ensure it meets our standards regardless of its source.
• 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

• You love writing code and are keen to learn and follow industry best practices.
• You are willing to engage with AI tooling as part of your workflow. You do not need to be an expert - but you should be open to using these tools where they help and applying critical judgement where they do not.
• You are keen to learn and improve skills such as Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), automation - you see testing as an engineering discipline.
• You have experience in, or are prepared to learn Java, Spring, Go, Python and Infrastructure as code (IAC) e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes etc.
• Practical, hands-on cloud native experience. You have built and operated services on at least one of the cloud providers at scale - AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• You are curious, innovative and enjoy a challenge and have high standards and have high expectations from the people you work with.
• You are aware of the big picture and how your work will impact our customers and can communicate effectively based on the audience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated environment
• Experience with Identity and Access management platform

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

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.