Senior Lead Software Engineer- Backend Engineer - Chase UK

🏢 JP Morgan
📍 LONDON, United KingdomFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 11mo ago
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Senior Lead Software Engineer (Backend) at JPMorgan Chase UK focuses on delivering cloud-native microservices for a banking platform. The role emphasizes building scalable, secure, and reliable backend systems using Java, RESTful APIs, and AWS, with strong testing, domain modeling, and stakeholder management. Candidates should have experience in cloud technologies, distributed systems, data stores (relational), and guiding teams on best practices, while supporting products through production and incident management. The position requires leadership in design, implementation patterns, and maintaining high-quality, maintainable solutions in a regulated, security-conscious environment.
Required Skills
Information Technology
JavaREST APIDistributed SystemsMicroservicesAWSAI IntegrationCloud SecurityIncident ManagementCloud Computing
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Stakeholder Management
Engineering, Construction & Trades
Manufacturing Processes
Requirements
The role requires formal training or certification in software engineering, recent hands-on experience as a back-end software engineer, strong Java programming skills, ability to design and implement comprehensive tests, excellent English communication, experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs, messaging frameworks, and operating systems for mission-critical applications. Preference for experience in regulated environments, cloud-native microservices, and AWS. Candidate should be able to coach teammates, manage stakeholders, and prioritize across multiple streams.
Description

At JP Morgan Chase, we understand that customers seek exceptional value and a seamless experience from a trusted financial institution. That's why we launched Chase UK to transform digital banking with intuitive and enjoyable customer journeys. With a strong foundation of trust established by millions of customers in the US, we have been rapidly expanding our presence in the UK and soon across Europe. We have been building the bank of the future from the ground up, offering you the chance to join us and make a significant impact.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will play a crucial role in this initiative, dedicated to delivering an outstanding banking experience to our customers. You will work in a collaborative environment as part of a diverse, inclusive, and geographically distributed team. We are seeking individuals with a curious mindset and a keen interest in new technology. Our engineers are naturally solution-oriented and possess an interest in the financial sector and focus on addressing our customer needs. We work in teams focused on specific products and projects, providing opportunities to engage in areas such as fraud & financial crime prevention, identity services, money transfers, card payments, lending, customer onboarding, core banking, insurance products, rewards campaigns, and servicing innovations.

Job responsibilities

  • Deliver end-to-end solutions in the form of cloud-native microservices architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices
  • Use domain modelling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.
  • Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
  • Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns.
  • Develop secure code so that our customers and ourselves are protected from malicious actors.
  • Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
  • Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
  • See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
  • Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems.
  • Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
  • Keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.
  • Support the products you've built through their entire lifecycle, including in production and during incident management

 

Required qualifications, capabilities & skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
  • Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer
  • Experience in coding in a recent version of the Java programming language
  • Experience in designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.
  • Knowledge of messaging frameworks.
  • Seasoned with operating, supporting and the security of mission critical software applications.
  • Understanding with different kinds of data stores (including relational data stores)
  • Coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.
  • Manage stakeholders and effectively prioritize work across multiple work streams.

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills

  • Experience in working in a highly regulated environment / industry
  • Seasoned with cloud-native microservices architecture
  • Proficient with AWS cloud technologies

 

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