Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Microservices & AI Tools

Aumni; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is expanding Chase UK and seeks a Lead Software Engineer to help deliver end-to-end cloud-native microservices, leverage domain modelling, and ensure secure, scalable software across production environments.

You will work in a distributed, diverse team and engage with products like fraud prevention, identity services, payments, lending, onboarding, and core banking while adopting enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 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 communicationskills 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.
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end solutions in cloud-native microservices architectures using modern technologies.
• Use domain modelling to build best-in-class business products.
• Structure software for ease of understanding, testing and evolution.
• Build scalable architectures with no single points of failure.
• Develop secure code to protect customers and systems.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly and prevent recurrence.
• Ensure releases happen with zero downtime for end-users.
• Ensure data is written/read efficiently for needs.
• Monitor performance and optimize approaches.
• Keep systems reliable and easy to operate.
• Continuously update technologies and patterns.
• Support products through their lifecycle, including production and incident management.
• Drive team adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices with consistent validation standards.
• Apply SDLC tools to improve value realized by automation.

Skills

Java

Cloud AWS

REST APIs

Security

AI-assisted engineering

Mentoring

Distributed systems

Education

Software engineering certification/training

Tools

AWS Cloud Services

Job description

J.P. Morgan is expanding Chase UK and seeks a Lead Software Engineer to help deliver end-to-end cloud-native microservices, leverage domain modelling, and ensure secure, scalable software across production environments.

You will work in a distributed, diverse team and engage with products like fraud prevention, identity services, payments, lending, onboarding, and core banking while adopting enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices.