Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack React/Java - Risk Frameworks
Software Engineering
Glasgow, UK
Posted on Aug 26, 2026
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Risk Technology space, you'll work in an agile team building production software across the full stack, with a frontend focus. You own code quality, contribute to technical direction, and work across React frontends and Java/Spring Boot services.
Job Responsibilities
- Write, review, and debug secure production code across frontend and backend services.
- Design and build cloud-native, microservices-based applications with zero-downtime releases.
- Apply domain modeling to structure software for clarity, testability, and long-term maintainability.
- Identify recurring failure patterns and eliminate or automate their remediation.
- Lead communities of practice to share new techniques and raise engineering standards across the org.
- Design for resilience: no single points of failure, scalable patterns, optimised data access.
- Contribute to a team culture where different perspectives improve the work.
- Work with stakeholders and clients to gather, challenge, and refine requirements before they become code.
Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities
- Significant hands-on software engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React.
- Backend experience with Java and Spring Boot.
- Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS, and a preprocessor such as Sass.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
- Comfortable working in agile delivery (Scrum or Kanban).
- Able to solve complex design and functionality problems independently.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent), RESTful APIs, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience designing and building applications with SQL and NoSQL databases.
Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities
- Experience mentoring engineers and presenting technical work to stakeholders.
- Background in financial services or banking.
- AWS certification or equivalent cloud experience.
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.
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.
Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team.
