Lead Software Engineering - Kotlin Java React

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in London to join their Strategic Growth Office. This role involves leading an agile team to innovate and deliver market-leading technology products, focusing on Kotlin, Java, and cloud solutions. Candidates should possess strong technical expertise and a passion for mentoring others.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Kotlin or Java, with advanced experience.
• Experience with React for building front-end solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead a squad of software engineers to meet business deliveries.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies and improve team velocity.
• Deliver scalable and secure cloud-native microservice architecture applications.

Skills

Team Leadership

Software Development

Agile Methodology

Problem Solving

Cloud Platforms

Education

Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java

Tools

Java

Kotlin

React

AWS

Spring Boot

Circle CI

GitHub

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Posted:

22.06.2025

Expiry Date:

06.08.2025

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Job Description:

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to innovate, build, enhance and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Strategic Growth Office and a part of the Aumni Team you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Lead a squad of software engineers to meet business deliveries, collaborating with product and design leads.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including standups, retrospectives, and technical refinements.
• Accelerate team velocity to improve time-to-market for business solutions.
• Provide frequent updates to senior stakeholders on the progress of business deliveries.
• Utilize domain modeling techniques to build best-in-class business products.
• Structure software for ease of understanding, testing, and evolution.
• Write comprehensive tests: unit, component, integration, end-to-end, and performance.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly, ensuring they do not resurface.
• Deliver end-to-end, scalable, and secure cloud-native microservice architecture applications using modern technologies and industry best practices.
• Contribute to high-quality technical architecture design and problem-solving beyond one's specialty.
• Ensure zero downtime for releases, optimized data handling, reliable systems, and continuous technology updates.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java concepts and proficient advanced experience (if Java, a willingness to learn Kotlin).
• Contribute to designing and building scalable and performant front-end solutions written in TypeScript using React.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• 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 platforms such Circle Ci.
• Experience with modern version control platform such as GitHub.
• A desire to teach others and share knowledge. A team player mindset where you want you to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Learns technologies and patterns quickly. Comfortable in uncharted waters.
• Ability to see the long term by choosing suitable 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

• Fluency across the full engineering stack, covering TypeScript, React (including common patterns in AG-Grid and Charting libraries), Java and Spring Boot.
• 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 using Kafka.