Software Engineer III- Python/ AI

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan in Glasgow is seeking a Software Engineer – Software Reliability to design scalable systems using Python and SRE practices. You will drive reliability, performance, and security across production apps, collaborating with teams to deliver robust solutions.

The role focuses on monitoring, incident response, automation, and data-driven improvements, contributing to architecture decisions and best practices in a large corporate environment.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python development and production-grade software.
• Experience with SRE practices, monitoring, and automation.
• Familiar with CI/CD and incident response in large environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, resilient Python systems for production.
• Apply SRE concepts to improve reliability and performance.
• Execute software solutions with debugging and troubleshooting.
• Create secure, production-grade code and robust recovery.
• Contribute to architecture artifacts aligning with design constraints.
• Gather data to build visualizations and improve software systems.
• Identify data patterns to improve coding hygiene and architecture.
• Implement health checks, monitoring, alerts, and recovery automation.
• Define SLIs and SLOs to track system health.
• Conduct chaos engineering to test resiliency.
• Perform performance testing using JMeter for scalability.
• Collaborate with product teams to enhance reliability and performance.
• Engage in communities of practice and explore new tech.
• Foster an inclusive team culture and drive post-incident reviews.

Skills

Python

SRE concepts

CI/CD

Incident response

Monitoring & metrics

Data analysis

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

JMeter

MongoDB

AWS

Docker

Job description

As a Software Engineer – Software Reliability in our product team, you will design and develop scalable, resilient systems using Python. You will apply SRE principles, drive operational excellence, and ensure our applications meet the highest standards of reliability and security. You'll work closely with peers to troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain production code, while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment. Your expertise will help us advance our software engineering practices and deliver impactful solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• esign and develop scalable and resilient systems using Python to support continuous improvement
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts to enhance system reliability and performance
• Execute software solutions, including design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Create secure, high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produce or contribute to architecture and design artifacts, ensuring design constraints are met
• Gather, analyze, and synthesize data to develop visualizations and reporting for software and system improvement
• Identify hidden problems and patterns in data to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture
• Implement reliability engineering practices such as monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery
• Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to track system health
• Conduct chaos engineering experiments to test system resiliency and identify weaknesses
• Perform performance testing using tools such as JMeter to ensure scalability and stability
• Collaborate with product teams to enhance system reliability, scalability, and performance
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new and emerging technologies
• Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Participate in post-incident reviews and drive root cause analysis for system failures

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in Python
• Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle, AWS cloud exposure, troubleshooting abilities, resiliency, and automation focus
• Understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Experience with AI and full understanding of the SDLC process, and MongoDB
• Familiarity with reliability engineering concepts, including monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery
• Ability to implement and maintain system health checks and performance metrics
• Experience with incident response and root cause analysis
• Commitment to writing maintainable, testable, and high-quality code
• Understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Experience with chaos engineering practices to test system resiliency
• Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies

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.