Lead Software Engineering - Kotlin Java React | London, UK

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm seeks a Lead Software Engineer with expertise in Kotlin and Java to join its London team. This role involves enhancing and developing advanced technology products, with a focus on scalable solutions and cross-functional collaboration. The ideal candidate will have formal qualifications in programming, cloud platform experience, and a commitment to high standards of performance and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Kotlin or Java with a willingness to learn Kotlin.
• Experience with TypeScript and React for front-end solutions.
• Ability to design scalable solutions on Cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, secure solutions using cloud-native microservices.
• Implement performance tests and ensure zero downtime for releases.
• Drive technical architecture and contribute to diverse problem-solving.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Domain modeling

CI/CD

Collaboration

Performance optimization

Cloud-native solutions

Education

Formal training in Kotlin or Java

Tools

React

Spring Boot

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Lead Software Engineering - Kotlin Java React

Lead Software Engineering - Kotlin Java React

JPMorgan Chase & Co. London, United Kingdom

Lead Software Engineering - Kotlin Java React

JPMorgan Chase & Co. London, United Kingdom Apply now Posted 18 days ago Permanent Competitive

Lead Software Engineering - Kotlin Java React

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

• Use domain modelling 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.
• Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• 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.
• Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of speciality.
• Contribute to and be an advocate for high quality 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.
• See that 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.
• Can to take the initiative and shape their own path and a pragmatic and iterative approach to achieving our long-term goals.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java concepts and proficient applied 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/consuming 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.
• Experience using both relational databases (e.g. Postgres) non-relational databases (e.g. DyanamoDB).

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

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

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