IT & Software

Lead Software Engineer - Java/React/AWS

JP Morgan Chase

Glasgow · Glasgow City · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Lead Software Engineer role, you build and deliver trusted, scalable technology within IP Product Management at JPMorganChase. You are a core technical contributor shaping secure, production-grade code and guiding AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and delivery. You collaborate across product, security, data, and platform teams to align on priorities and drive sustainable improvements. You are motivated by building resilient systems that support large-scale financial services. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to influence engineering standards and outcomes at scale.

Responsibilities
  • Design and implement creative software solutions and troubleshoot complex problems
  • Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others' code
  • Drive adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality, speed, and reliability
  • Leverage SDLC tooling and automation to increase value of engineering processes
  • Identify and automate remediation of recurring issues to enhance operational stability
  • Collaborate with product managers, security, data, and platform teams to deliver secure, compliant solutions
  • Own remediation of engineering hygiene issues (vulnerability findings, dependency upgrades, test coverage) with automation and standards
Key requirements
  • Solid troubleshooting skills with attention to detail
  • Strong hands-on experience in Java
  • Front-end visualization experience using React (or similar)
  • Practical experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure (ECS/EKS/S3), Kubernetes, containers, and Terraform
  • Experience leading the use of AI-assisted development tools and setting team expectations for validating AI outputs
  • Effective communicator
  • Team player
  • Collaborative across engineering, product, and operations teams
  • Java
  • React or similar front-end tech
  • AWS (ECS, EKS, S3)

Reference: WJ-747_30241097

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