Senior Backend Engineer — Cloud-Native Microservices

Fairygodboss; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Software Engineer II to help design, build, and scale microservices within the GBP Global Banking Platform. The role includes a secondment to a fintech partner, with full backing by JPMorgan Chase, before returning to drive GBP’s cloud journey.

The position emphasizes secure, tested, production-grade code, CI/CD, and collaboration across teams to deliver trusted, market-leading technology at scale.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficient in at least one major programming language: Go, Python and/or Java.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Experience in developing automated tests as an integral part of the development cycle.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and develop scalable, performant microservices using software engineering best practices.
• Writes secure and high-quality code
• Writes automated unit tests, integration tests, etc.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in code and data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Manage and troubleshoot deployments from testing environments all the way to production.
• Interface with other engineering teams to ensure that features are added in a structured and coherent way.
• Translate generic product requirements into trackable tickets.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

AI-assisted tools

Tools

AWS

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Software Engineer II to help design, build, and scale microservices within the GBP Global Banking Platform. The role includes a secondment to a fintech partner, with full backing by JPMorgan Chase, before returning to drive GBP’s cloud journey.

The position emphasizes secure, tested, production-grade code, CI/CD, and collaboration across teams to deliver trusted, market-leading technology at scale.