Software Engineer II - Site Reliability Engineering in Glasgow

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you. As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within Corporate Technology, you will be part of an SRE team dedicated to enhancing, designing, and delivering software components for the firm’s technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. You will implement software solutions through design, development, and technical troubleshooting of various components within a technical product, application, or system, while acquiring the skills to advance in your role.

Responsibilities

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Writes secure and high-quality code using at least one programming language with limited guidance.
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation.
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity.
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in secure, stable application development.
• Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems.
• Collaborates with technical experts, key stakeholders, and team members to resolve complex problems.
• Understands service level indicators and utilizes service level objectives to proactively resolve issues before they impact customers.
• Supports the adoption of site reliability engineering best practices within the team.
• Contributes to a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expanding applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages (e.g., Mongo).
• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages such as Java/Spring Boot.
• Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle.
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, or Terraform).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., ECS, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience in observability, including monitoring, SLA/SLO alerting, and telemetry collection using tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, and others.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Knowledge of using GENAI tools such as Copilot or Windsurf as Code Assistants.
• Ability to collaborate across different levels and stakeholder groups.
• General knowledge of the financial services industry.
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, AI/ML, mobile, etc.).

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to corporations, governments, wealthy individuals, and institutional investors. Our 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 are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected attributes. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

About The Team

Our professionals in Corporate Functions cover finance, risk, human resources, and marketing. Our corporate teams are essential to our company, ensuring we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success.