Software Engineer III

Job description
J.P. Morgan Cazenove is a leading financial advisor on transactions in the UK as well as internationally. Clients value our ability to combine impartial advice with effective solutions as well as our extensive relationships with institutional shareholders, which have been built up over many years. The Corporate Finance division offers a full range of investment banking services to companies in the UK including M&A, equity capital markets, debt capital markets, corporate broking, balance sheet management and investor relations. We play an important role as part of the boardroom advisory team on all matters affecting the company’s development and growth. Specifically, we seek to establish a long-term advisory relationship with clients, advising on any planned strategic moves such as mergers, acquisitions and disposals and developing and executing appropriate financial solutions. Our financial advisory activities include advice on equity issuance, balance sheet restructuring, returns of capital and valuations.

Working closely with Investment Banking stakeholders, The Corporate Broking Technology team is looking to recruit an experienced Software Engineer based in London to lead the charge on strategic initiatives.

The ideal candidate will possess following skill set.

Technical skill:
- Design and hands-on development of Spring Boot Micro-services/Spring JPA/Spring Security modules.
- Experience working with AWS.
- Experience working on Oracle database involving complex join queries.
- Integrating between services using Queue Frameworks like Apache Kafka.
- Cloud deployments using Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
- Good understanding of CI/CD processes, unit/integration testing frameworks.
- Peer reviewing of code by developers.
- (Advantage) HTML development with ReactJs & Redux Framework.

Other skill:
- Hands on experience from an Agile driven software/product development team.
- Strong "can do" attitude.
- A team player as well as being comfortable with working independently.
- Able to deliver against tight software development deadline in at times pressurized environment.
- A self-starter who can collaborate across teams such as Banking Technology, Markets Technology, Data Science, and Market Data.
- (Advantage) Investment Banking or UK Corporate Broking experience.

Other job responsibilities
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect