Software Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the eTrading Fast Risk & Pricing Solutions team, 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.

JPMorgan's eTrading Fast Risk & Pricing Solutions team is seeking a highly motivated Java engineer to join our global, diverse technology organization. We focus on providing modern solutions to support the Corporate & Investment Bank's trading businesses across a wide range of asset classes including government and corporate bonds, interest rate swaps, exchange traded funds and FX options. Our critical systems support front-office traders and automated algorithmic trading systems to make effective trading and hedging decisions to generate revenue and minimize the company's exposure to risk.

You will collaborate with colleagues to perform technical analysis of client requirements, participate in estimation, planning, code reviews, architecture design sessions and retrospectives. This role offers the opportunity to learn about risk and pricing from colleagues, stakeholders and extensive training resources. This exciting role provides you with the opportunity to see the direct impact of your contributions on the trading businesses and receive client feedback from around the globe. You must be a passionate and well-rounded technologist, eager to continuously learn and enhance your skills.

• Design and develop high-performance, latency-sensitive code, incorporate security requirements and reviewing code written by team members using software engineering best practices
• Write efficient, secure, high-quality code and automated tests
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by code
• Identify opportunities to eliminate recurring issues to improve overall stability, resiliency and reliability of software applications and systems
• Collaborate effectively as part of a globally distributed team
• Support junior colleagues in their technical growth

• Experience in enterprise software development
• Excellent understanding of Java fundamentals and frameworks (Spring Boot), OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies and computer networks
• Experience in building high-performance, latency-sensitive Java applications
• Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting software running in a Linux environment, familiarity with the Linux operating system and system utilities
• Experience with modern testing tools (JUnit, Mockito etc)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience working with globally distributed engineers and stakeholders
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile methods
• Hands‑on experience with event driven architectures and distributed messaging technologies (AMPS, Kafka)
• Energetic, determined, motivated, curious and able to work in a fast‑paced environment whilst delivering high‑quality work products

• Familiarity with front‑end technologies, like React and TypeScript
• Knowledge of JP Morgan's Athena trade management platform would be useful
• Experience working with cloud architectures and services

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.

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.