Lead Software Engineer - Equities Prime Sec Lending Technology Glasgow
JPMorganChase
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll join a talented team in Securities Lending, where you’ll help deliver market-leading technology products and drive innovation across multiple technical domains. You’ll collaborate with passionate professionals, solve complex problems, and grow your expertise in a supportive, inclusive environment.
Job Summary:
As a Lead Software Engineer in Securities Lending, you will be an integral part of an agile team enhancing, building, and delivering trusted technology solutions. You will develop critical software across various business functions, create interactive user interfaces, and drive technical excellence. Your role will involve leading evaluation sessions, fostering communities of practice, and contributing to a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Job Responsibilities:
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to build and optimize technology products.
- Create user interfaces and interactive features for web applications using modern languages and frameworks.
- Develop secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability.
- Lead evaluation sessions with internal teams to assess architectural designs and technical credentials.
- Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and adoption of new technologies.
- Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with applied experience.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Experience in developing microservices with Java, Spring Boot, or Python.
- Experience with cloud technologies, distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and web technologies.
- Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL databases such as Oracle.
- Knowledge of RESTful Web Services, WebSockets, and JSON.
- Advanced proficiency in front-end languages and libraries (e.g., C#, React) and back-end languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Spring, Python), with practical cloud native experience.
- Proficient in all aspects of the software development life cycle and automation/continuous delivery methods.
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
- Experience with build and integration tools, including JIRA, Maven, Git, Jenkins, GitHub, and BitBucket.
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning).
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience working across the entire software development life cycle in a large corporate environment.
- Completed AWS Developer or Solution Architect Certification.
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and IT systems.
- Experience with observability and production management tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana).
- Interest in modern development trends and emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning.
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.
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.
Advance your software engineering career by building secure, scalable technology solutions in a collaborative, agile team.