Lead Backend Engineer – Fintech, Scalable & AI‑Driven

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Accelerator team in London. You’ll drive the delivery of fintech products, lead collaborative squads, and apply domain modeling to build scalable, secure software.

You will work in a culture that values curiosity, collaboration and responsible AI use, with opportunities to rotate across product areas and contribute to real-world financial solutions for customers and partners worldwide.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on problem-solving concepts and proficient applied experience.
• Identifies problems, proposes solutions, suggests what’s best to focus on.
• Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of speciality.
• A desire to teach others and share knowledge. We aren’t looking for hero developers, more for team players.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Learns and unlearns technologies and patterns quickly.
• Can see the long term. Won’t sacrifice the future for the present.
• High standards. Expects personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.
• Does not cut corners ethically. Earns and maintains trust.
• Does what’s best for the company, rather than what’s best for themselves or their team.
• Able to take the initiative and shape their own path with pragmatic, iterative approach.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools with the ability to set team expectations.

Responsibilities

• Use domain modeling 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.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing validation standards.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities.

Skills

Problem solving

Team player

Adapt to change

AI-assisted development

Strong communication

Tools

Java/Kotlin

Cloud platforms

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for the Accelerator team in London. You’ll drive the delivery of fintech products, lead collaborative squads, and apply domain modeling to build scalable, secure software.

You will work in a culture that values curiosity, collaboration and responsible AI use, with opportunities to rotate across product areas and contribute to real-world financial solutions for customers and partners worldwide.