Lead Backend Engineer – AI-Driven, Secure Cloud

Aumni; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive secure, scalable software solutions in an agile team. You will contribute as a core technical member across multiple areas, focusing on high-quality code, automation, and resilient systems.

You will champion AI-assisted engineering practices, ensure secure coding standards, and collaborate with external vendors and internal teams to validate architectures and implementations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering software design, development, testing and operational stability.
• Advanced in at least one programming language.
• Experience leading use of approved AI-assisted software development tools with focus on correctness, performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and technical troubleshooting beyond routine approaches.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Drives adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed and operational outcomes.
• Applies SDLC tools to improve automation and value realization.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation of recurring issues for stability.
• Leads evaluation sessions with vendors and internal teams on architecture and applicability.

Skills

Programming languages

AI-assisted tooling

Security awareness

CI/CD & DevOps

SRE & resiliency

SDLC knowledge

Tools

AI-assisted development tools

Code review tools

Automation & testing tools

Job description

JPMorganChase within Infrastructure Platforms seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive secure, scalable software solutions in an agile team. You will contribute as a core technical member across multiple areas, focusing on high-quality code, automation, and resilient systems.

You will champion AI-assisted engineering practices, ensure secure coding standards, and collaborate with external vendors and internal teams to validate architectures and implementations.