Lead Software Engineer – Java

I.T. & Communications
Glasgow
May 15, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

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 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 micro services.
  • 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.

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