Lead Software Engineer - Java
Content + Source + Freshness • 17 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
This position offers a solid high-value score due to its critical role in a leading financial institution, involvement in cutting-edge technology, and opportunities for leadership development.
- Competitive leadership role in a premier financial institution
- Involvement in innovative technology projects
- Opportunity to lead development teams
Pros
- High visibility and impact within a key financial institution
- Strong focus on innovative technology and software development
- Opportunities to lead and mentor a team of developers
Cons
- High-pressure environment with significant responsibility
- Potential for long hours during critical project phases
- Competitive candidate pool may heighten job expectations
Who it's for
Lead / Senior • Hybrid / on-site
Good fit
- Experienced software engineers with Java expertise
- Leaders looking to make significant impacts in tech projects
- Professionals aiming to advance in agile environments
Not recommended for
- New graduates or those without Java programming experience
- Candidates seeking roles without team leadership components
- Individuals preferring static job functions over dynamic challenges
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Lead Software Engineer - Java
Job Information
- Job Identification 210667182
- Job Category Software Engineering
- Business Unit Commercial & Investment Bank
- Posting Date 09/24/2025, 11:18 AM
- Locations 315 Argyle Street, Glasgow, Glasgow City, G2 8AT, GB 25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London, Greater London, E14 5JP, GB
- Job Schedule Full time
Job Description
Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank organization, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm’s business objectives.
Job responsibilities
Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
Works at code level with Java while leading a team of developers and provides regular coaching, conduct code and design reviews
Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team
Develops specific enhancements and build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements
Owns the end-to-end process of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups
Provides third level production support on a rotation basis – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and tools including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven
Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, Security, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
Hands-on coding experience in Java, and understanding of Java Core concepts including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17 while leading team of Software Engineers
Expertise in Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST based services
Expertise in designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities
Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs
Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning
Demonstrated ability in supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues while working in a third level advanced support capacity
- Exposure to cloud technologies, Splunk, Apache Kafka, Grafana
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