Lead Software Engineer, Fintech Platform Innovator

Testing Site - JPMC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in London is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive product-focused fintech initiatives and translate ideas into customer-facing software. You will work in collaborative squads, bringing curiosity, commitment, and a customer-centric mindset to the role.

You will lead architecture and engineering efforts, moving across tribes and projects to apply your strengths. This role emphasizes teamwork, mentorship, and delivering durable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on problem-solving concepts and proficient applied experience.
• Identifies problems, proposes solutions, suggests what's best to focus on. Sees themselves as a problem solver.
• 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. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Learns and unlearns technologies and patterns quickly. Comfortable in uncharted waters.
• Can see the long term. Won’t sacrifice the future for the present. Chooses technologies and approaches based on the end goals.
• 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 and a pragmatic and iterative approach to achieving our long term goals

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.

Skills

Problem solving

Team player

Adapt to change

Long-term thinking

High standards

Ethical

Initiative

Learning agility

Software architecture

Java/Kotlin

Open source mindset

Tools

Java

Kotlin

Cloud platforms

Open source tooling

Job description

JPMorgan Chase in London is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive product-focused fintech initiatives and translate ideas into customer-facing software. You will work in collaborative squads, bringing curiosity, commitment, and a customer-centric mindset to the role.

You will lead architecture and engineering efforts, moving across tribes and projects to apply your strengths. This role emphasizes teamwork, mentorship, and delivering durable solutions in a fast-paced environment.