Backend Engineer - Cloud-Native FinTech (Java/Kotlin)

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is expanding its Back-End Engineering team within Personal Investing in London, delivering cloud-native microservice architectures and secure, scalable banking experiences.

You will work on Java/Kotlin-based solutions across fraud, investments, identity services, money transfers, and core banking, collaborating with distributed teams to rapidly ship features. The role emphasizes software craftsmanship, CI/CD practices, and incident management, with strong communication in

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on Java programming concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer in an agile, dynamic and customer facing environment.
• Recent experience with using a JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin, preferably Java 8+)
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and web technologies.
• Understanding of relational databases.
• Experience in all the stages of software development lifecycle (requirements, design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and support)
• Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment within a diverse, inclusive and geographically distributed team
• Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs
• Technically curious, versatile and solution
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
• Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Understanding of messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Experience in automating deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices.
• Design, estimate costs for and implement technical solutions written in Java/Kotlin
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end & performance tests
• Support the products you've built through their entire life cycle, including production and incident management

Skills

Java

Kotlin

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Kafka/RabbitMQ

CI/CD

English communication

Tools

Spring

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is expanding its Back-End Engineering team within Personal Investing in London, delivering cloud-native microservice architectures and secure, scalable banking experiences.

You will work on Java/Kotlin-based solutions across fraud, investments, identity services, money transfers, and core banking, collaborating with distributed teams to rapidly ship features. The role emphasizes software craftsmanship, CI/CD practices, and incident management, with strong communication in