Sr Lead Software Engineer - Python/Go & Distributed Systems

J.P. MORGAN-1; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to enhance and deliver technology products. The role involves designing distributed systems and working with stakeholders to meet platform needs. Ideal candidates have significant experience in technical leadership and distributed systems, along with a strong software engineering background. This position is based in Glasgow, offering competitive compensation and a supportive work environment.

Qualifications

• Multiple years of technical leadership in an equivalent role.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, and stability.
• Ability to tackle design problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate distributed telemetry systems.
• Work with stakeholders to evolve the platform.
• Produce visualizations of operational data.

Skills

Technical leadership

Software Engineering concepts

System design experience

Distributed systems

Cloud native experience

Education

Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

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

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms organization, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your role involves promoting significant business impact through your expertise and contributions, utilizing deep technical knowledge and problem‑solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across multiple technologies and applications. With one of the largest on‑prem private cloud platforms, JPMorgan Chase requires highly scaled distributed systems to interpret the vast operational observability data it generates. We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic lead engineer to advance these platforms. Your background in software development, data, and distributed systems design will be essential in this role.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate distributed telemetry systems to transport, enrich and present Observability data for the firm
• Work with Clients and stakeholders to make recommendations for how to evolve our platform to meet customer needs
• Produce rich visualizations on this data to tell the story of JPMorgan Chase’s private cloud adoption, growth, and operations
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Multiple years experience of technical leadership in an equivalent role
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of telemetry platforms like Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes (experience managing Kubernetes clusters a bonus)
• Mastery of multiple programming languages and/or paradigms (Golang a bonus)

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.