Lead Software Engineer - Java in Glasgow

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what’s possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Markets - Prime Finance Services, 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:

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications.
• Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas/solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
• Owns the end‑to‑end process of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision‑making in service of secure, stable application development.
• Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Extensive experience with Java/Spring/Spring Boot and related technologies.
• Hands‑on coding experience in Java, and understanding of Java Core concepts including object‑oriented design, memory management, multi‑threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 21 while leading a team of Software Engineers.
• Expertise in Databases, relational (Oracle), and No‑SQL (MongoDB).
• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle.
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Knowledge and experience building microservices.
• Exposure to cloud technologies especially hands‑on with AWS or on‑prem cloud like GAP/GKP.
• Exposure to messaging platforms like Kafka, IBM MQ, MSK.
• Familiarity with modern front‑end technologies like React JS, JavaScript, Typescript.

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.