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Lead Java / Python Software Engineer - Equities

JPMorganChase

JPMorganChase

Software Engineering
Glasgow, UK
Posted on Jan 23, 2026

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you. Join us to work on state-of-the-art technology products, collaborate with talented professionals, and make a real impact in the Equities business. We value your drive to learn, your technical expertise, and your commitment to innovation and teamwork.

Job Summary:
As a Software Engineer II in the Equities business, you will be part of an agile team enhancing, designing, and delivering software components for cutting-edge technology products. You will execute software solutions through design, development, and technical troubleshooting, while building your skills and experience. You will contribute to a culture of collaboration, innovation, and inclusion, helping us deliver secure, stable, and scalable solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Participate in designing and developing scalable, resilient systems using Java or Python to drive continual improvements for product teams.
  • Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
  • Create secure, high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
  • Produce or contribute to architecture and design artifacts for applications, ensuring design constraints are met.
  • Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets to support continuous improvement.
  • Identify hidden problems and patterns in data to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture.
  • Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new and emerging technologies.
  • Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  • Proficient in coding in Python or Java.
  • Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with modern programming and database querying languages.
  • Overall knowledge of the software development life cycle.
  • Understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
  • Exposure to cloud technologies (preferably AWS).

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.
Grow your skills and advance your career by building secure, scalable technology solutions in a collaborative, agile team.