Lead Software Engineer - Platform

Next Frontier Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Backend Engineering Platform. You will design and maintain Spring Boot based frameworks that empower product teams to build scalable financial services.

In this hands-on role, you will deliver architectural guidance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with SDLC and Infrastructure to promote standardization and best practices across the Investments technology landscape.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing APIs in microservice architectures.
• Experience with SDLC standardisation and build tools.
• Ability to mentor and manage stakeholders.
• Understanding of regulated environments and controls.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend frameworks and libraries using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build components that implement functional and non-functional requirements out-of-the-box.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to improve productivity and engineering experience.
• Tackle complex technical challenges and guide the team with strategic solutions.
• Collaborate with SDLC and Infrastructure teams to enable Platform as a Product.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

API design

Microservices

SDLC

Mentoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Maven

Gradle

Job description

Behind every investment is a person with ambitions, motivations and values. While we know that every client is unique, they come to J.P. Morgan Personal Investing for the same reason: our straightforward and transparent approach to investing, and the trust that 150 years of J.P. Morgan heritage brings.

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing offers award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to almost 300,000 investors in the UK. We built the business with innovation as a core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within J.P. Morgan Personal Investing, you will join a Backend Engineering Platform team dedicated to building a Spring Boot based framework and libraries that enable our product engineering teams to build and run financial services at scale.

This hands-on role combines deep technical expertise in Java and the Spring ecosystem, with strong problem-solving abilities. You will work closely with SDLC and Infrastructure teams and play a pivotal role in driving standardization and promoting best practices across Investments' technology landscape.

Job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend frameworks and libraries using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build components that provide out of the box implementations of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions that improve their productivity and engineering experience.
• Tackle complex technical challenges, design innovative strategic solutions and provide guidance to the team.
• Close collaboration with SDLC and Infrastructure teams to enable delivery of Platform as a Product

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot (or similar) framework.
• Experience with managing build tools such as Maven and Gradle and their role in SDLC standardisation.
• Experience with building APIs in micro-service-oriented architectures and distributed systems with high level of complexity.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding the needs of engineering teams with the ability to drive change and influence their technical direction.
• Passion for driving standardisation, process improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Understanding importance of controls and compliance in regulated organisations.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with designing libraries that have been used across multiple engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of Spring and Spring Boot internals.
• Experience working in financial services, investment platforms, or similar regulated organisations.
• Experience with building self-serve tooling for engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

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.

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. Backend Java/Spring Boot engineer building shared platform frameworks, standardizing SDLC, security & compliance for product teams.