Java Software Engineer II

TN United Kingdom; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

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.

As a Java Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management division, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

We are building the #1 Asset Management Technology platform in the world and we need exceptional, motivated, world-class talent to join our core testing team at JP Morgan Asset Management. You must have a passion for writing, testing, and delivering high quality code.

Job responsibilities

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance.
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation.
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity.
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development.
• Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages.
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge in creating, maintaining front-end applications using React.
• Knowledge of working with Oracle or other SQL based database.
• Knowledge in using automation tools like Selenium and Playwright.
• Experience with integrating functional tests within pipelines.