Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in the United Kingdom seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join its Commercial and Investment Bank organization. The successful candidate will enhance and deliver technology products while leading and mentoring a team of developers. Proficiency in Java and hands-on experience with CI/CD, microservices, and production support are essential. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate within an agile team. Competitive compensation and career development are offered.

Qualifications

• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies.
• Hands-on coding experience in Java and Java Core concepts.
• Expertise in designing scalable micro services architectures.
• Demonstrated ability in supporting production environments.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Lead a team of developers and conduct code reviews.
• Collaborate with business Ops to address technology requirements.
• Own the end-to-end process of feature deliveries.
• Provide third level production support in rotation.

Skills

Proficient with Git/Bitbucket

Proficient with Jira

Proficient with Jenkins

Proficient with Gradle

Proficient with Maven

Advanced understanding of CI/CD

Expertise in Java

Hands-on coding experience in Java

Proficient in Unix/Linux

Expertise in microservices

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

JUnit

Spring/Spring Boot

REACT JS

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank organization, you are an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Works at code level with Java while leading a team of developers and provides regular coaching, conduct code and design reviews
• Works directly with business Ops and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems
• Collaborates with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions, and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team
• Develops specific enhancements and build new solutions to fulfil business objectives related to new business requirements
• Owns the end-to-end process of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment, and support
• Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems
• Ensures technology solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable
• Documents release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups
• Provides third level production support on a rotation basis – analyse issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle and tools including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, Security, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and using tools such as JUnit and mocking frameworks
• Hands-on coding experience in Java, and understanding of Java Core concepts including object-oriented design, memory management, multi-threading/concurrency, and new language features up to Java 17 while leading team of Software Engineers
• Expertise in Java technologies/frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot, and REST based services
• Expertise in designing and implementing scalable micro service architectures with high resiliency capabilities
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments, ability to navigate the system, investigate processes and logs
• Expertise in Databases, relational, and No-SQL and JVM performance analysis including profiling, heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis, and GC tuning
• Demonstrated ability in supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues while working in a third level advanced support capacity

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Knowledge of cloud compute platforms, including AWS.
• Hands-on coding experience in JavaScript, REACT JS