Lead Software Engineer - Observability Event Alert UK - Java Full Stack
JPMorgan Chase13 hours ago
Glasgow, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the migration from a legacy monolith to a containerized Java and Spring Boot microservices architecture, including decomposition, domain modeling, and data migration planning.
- Design and implement scalable, highly available, multi-region distributed systems and event-driven alerting workflows using Kafka.
- Build backend services and APIs in Java and Spring Boot while contributing to operational UI and console experiences as needed.
- Drive performance, resiliency, observability, SLO/SLI instrumentation, latency, throughput, and incident-response improvements.
- Lead architecture evaluations, technical discussions, cross-team initiatives, mentoring, design reviews, and engineering standards adoption.
- Evaluate AI for Ops and lead responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering and automation tools.
Requirements
- Significant professional software engineering experience, including leading cross-team initiatives at the Lead level.
- Hands-on experience with system design, application development, testing, and operational stability for distributed systems.
- Advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and system design.
- Backend-focused full-stack capability with the ability to contribute across application layers and partner on UI work.
- Experience with automation, continuous delivery methods, CI/CD pipelines, and the full software development lifecycle.
- Cloud-native experience deploying containerized microservices and working knowledge of relational databases, specifically Oracle.
- Experience leading the safe and effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools and validating their outputs for correctness, performance, security, and compliance.
- Preferred qualifications include Kubernetes/EKS, Kafka, distributed systems at scale, React, TypeScript, AWS, CockroachDB, Terraform, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, ELK, observability, mentoring, design reviews, and stakeholder management.
Benefits
- Benefits may include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, retirement savings, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- The employer offers competitive total rewards and may provide commission-based pay or discretionary incentive compensation for eligible roles; compensation details are provided during the hiring process.
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About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.