Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase · Glasgow

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Wealth Management Investments Trading Team, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineers to design, build, and deploy applications aligned with business and functional requirements.
Contribute to Java-based microservices using streaming, non-blocking, and reactive programming paradigms; write production-quality code.
Work with Kafka, IBM MQ, Kubernetes (K8s), Redis, Amazon MSK, and AWS services to deliver scalable, efficient systems.
Support domain-driven design adoption and participate in architectural discussions.
Contribute to technical documentation and service APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI), ensuring strong logging, auditability, security, and monitoring.
Participate in API design sessions and help select appropriate design patterns and integration approaches.
Engage in code reviews; promote TDD/BDD practices to ensure maintainability and quality.
Assist in demonstrating service scalability and resilience using mock frameworks, performance testing, and related tools.
Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Experience with the Spring ecosystem and AWS cloud services.
Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
Caching: Redis, GemFire, or Apache Ignite
Messaging/streaming: Kafka, IBM MQ
Working knowledge of microservices, REST APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, and event-driven architectures.
Practical understanding of CI/CD, DevOps toolchains, and agile, test-driven delivery.
Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Familiarity with trading systems; exposure to the FIX protocol is a plus.

About Us
Join a team at the forefront of trading technology innovation. You’ll work in a collaborative environment where your contributions directly support the success of our multi-asset trading platform. If you are passionate about building scalable systems and growing your technical expertise, we encourage you to apply.

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.

Lead development of our trading platform using reactive streaming Java, microservices, domain promote design, and modern cloud tech.

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