Lead Software Engineer EQ - EDG STR&TRD - XMKTS STRUCTURING UK

J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan

Software Engineering

London, UK

Posted on Jul 1, 2026

Job responsibilities
• Own the delivery of value-add activities as part of a scrum team and be an active member governing the overall platform.
• Enhance and develop new features for risk aggregation and hedging, leveraging React and Java
• Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
• You will also collaborate with other frontend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of re-suable components to facilitate faster development.
• Close collaboration with a number of teams including Trading, Sales and Quantitative Research, UX as well as other technology teams.


Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Commercial experience working with Java
• Experience in designing scalable micro-services using RESTful
• Knowledge of server side technologies (Spring/Spring boot, messaging frameworks such as ActiveMQ, Kafka, maven/gradle, junit mocking frameworks)
• Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting
• Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning within a commercial setting
• Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology
• Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.

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’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
A Lead Java Engineer is required to drive the development of the next generation of features for an Equities front office quoting and booking platform. We have an exciting opportunity within an agile development team working on a best-in-class quoting and booking platform. You’ll partner with top-tier engineers across our global teams, building deep expertise across the end-to-end equities swaps trade lifecycle from pre-trade workflows through post-trade processing supporting a fast-paced Equities front-office desk.
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