Lead Software Engineer - Platform Engineering - Chase UK

JPMorganChase; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Greater London is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Developer Experience team. You will help transform mobile banking by delivering cloud-native microservices architecture applications. The role involves collaborating with various development teams to enhance the developer experience, ensuring high-quality code deployment.

Ideal candidates will possess a deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and experience in AWS and Infrastructure as Code practices like Terraform. This position offers significant impact on innovative banking solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes.

Responsibilities

• Drive epics individually with minimum support.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance developer experience.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications.

Skills

Software engineering concepts

Distributed systems

Microservice architecture

Python

Agile methodologies

Infrastructure as Code

AWS

Kubernetes

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Grafana

SonarQube

Job description

Are you ready to transform the future of banking? Join our digital bank, Chase, as a Lead Software Engineer and be part of a team that's revolutionizing mobile banking with seamless journeys that our customers love. At JPMorgan Chase, we're building the bank of the future from scratch, offering you the opportunity to make a real impact. Our Developer Experience team is dedicated to providing an exceptional developer experience, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. Embrace the chance to grow your career in a diverse and inclusive environment where your unique perspective is valued. As a Lead Software Engineer within the International Consumer Bank, you will collaborate with development teams to enhance the developer experience, delivering end‑to‑end cutting‑edge solutions in the form of cloud‑native microservices architecture applications. You will be involved in the design and architecture of solutions, focusing on the entire SDLC lifecycle stages. Our team works in tribes and squads, allowing you to move between projects based on your strengths and interests, making a significant impact on our clients and business partners worldwide.

Job Responsibilities

• Self‑motivated who can drive epics individually with minimum support.
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance the developer experience, providing tools and infrastructure that support agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment.
• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches.
• Create secure and high‑quality production code to deploy infrastructure.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
• Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets for continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
• Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data, using insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Add to the team’s culture, diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Understanding distributed systems and microservice architecture.
• Hands‑on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages (Python or other) and database querying languages.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Understanding Agile methodologies, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud).
• Experience with Public Cloud services in Production (AWS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or other).
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Experience in architecting, supporting, and implementing advanced, strategic CICD migrations.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Familiarity with modern front‑end or back‑end technologies.
• Debugging expertise in Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Infrastructure Tools, preferably Terraform, and AWS services understanding.
• Experience with any GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Terraform Cloud, Slack, Grafana, SonarQube is considered a plus.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages.

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate based on 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.