Lead Software Engineer – Java, React, Typescript

I.T. & Communications
Glasgow
January 30, 2026
£65000 - £65000
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

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 JPMorganChase within the Wealth Management Controls Technology organization, 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 software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  • Creates secure and high-quality production code
  • Contribute to technical documentation, including service APIs (using Swagger), and ensure robust logging, auditability, security, and monitoring features.
  • Apply knowledge of service level indicators and objectives to proactively address issues and improve system reliability.
  • Support the adoption of SRE best practices within the team as needed.
  • Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Hands-on programming/application development experience JAVA, Spring Boot, REST/API. Proficiency in: SQL/Hibernate, Messaging (MQ & Kafka), application performance testing and tuning, Agile
  • Must have excellent analytical, technical, and oral communication skills
  • Experience with JavaScript, ReactJS, or similar scripting language
  • Good knowledge of AWS offerings (S3, EC2, RDS, Lambda ,Terraform etc).
  • Good knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Ability to troubleshoot networking technologies and resolve common issues.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in large teams. Proactive problem-solving mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies.
  • Ability to identify and implement innovative solutions to meet business needs.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience in Spark, Scala, testable, and efficient code
  • Experience applying site reliability engineering (SRE) principles to software development.
  • Understanding of authentication and authorization technologies (OAUTH, Kerberos).
  • Exposure to service level objective alerting and telemetry collection.
  • Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk) and monitoring best practices is a plus.

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