Lead Software Engineer - ICB Rewards

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services firm as a Lead Software Engineer, where you'll leverage your expertise in Java and cloud technologies to build innovative solutions. Collaborate in diverse teams to enhance our fintech products and make a significant impact on our clients and the industry. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Qualifications

• Proficient advanced experience in Java and building RESTful APIs.
• Experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD tools.
• Desire to coach team members on coding practices.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, secure solutions using cloud-native microservices.
• Contribute to technical architecture design and ensure zero downtime.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly.

Skills

Java

RESTful APIs

Cloud Solutions

CI/CD

Relational Databases

Education

Formal training or certification on Java concepts

Tools

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Job Description

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Accelerator Business, you are the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. You have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By your nature, you are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy, and have a head for fintech. You thrive in working in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects – and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them.

While we’re looking for professional skills, culture is just as important to us. We understand that everyone's unique – and that diversity of thought, experience, and background is what makes a good team, great. By bringing people with different points of view together, we can represent everyone and truly reflect the communities we serve. This way, there's scope for you to make a huge difference – on us as a company, and on our clients and business partners around the world.

Job 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.
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, and secure solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications, leveraging modern technologies and the best industry practices.
• Contribute to technical architecture design.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly, and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
• Ensure 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.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Java concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with any of: Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus.
• Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements.
• Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns.
• Experience with a modern CI/CD platform such as GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD.
• Strong relational database skills.
• A desire to teach others and share knowledge. We aren’t looking for hero developers, more for team players. We want you to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns.
• Comfortable in uncharted waters. We are building something new. Things change quickly. We need you to learn technologies and patterns quickly.
• Ability to see the long term. We don’t want you to sacrifice the future for the present. We want you to choose technologies and approaches based on the end goals.
• High standards. We are looking for people who expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience building Loyalty and Reward platforms including ledgers and reward engines.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs for use by third parties.
• Experience designing and building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, GCP).
• Experience building and deploying on Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform).
• Experience building debit and credit card products linked to rewards offerings.
• Experience using Kafka.
• Experience with non-relational databases.

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About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals, and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success.