Lead Software Engineer - Java
J.P. Morgan
Software Engineering
Glasgow, UK
Posted on Jan 15, 2026
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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.
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.
J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.
The Wealth Management Controls Technology group is looking for a Full Stack Lead Software Engineer.
