Senior Backend Engineer – Engineering Community Lead

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. invites applications for a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the International Consumer Bank.

You will work on back-end systems, craft scalable and secure solutions, and guide engineering culture across distributed teams to deliver exceptional digital banking experiences. This role emphasizes leadership beyond your own team, hands-on Java development, testing, cloud-native architectures, and collaboration across product and engineering communities to raise hiring quality,

Qualifications

• Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer.
• Experience in coding in a recent version of the Java programming language.
• Experience in designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.).
• Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.
• Knowledge of messaging frameworks.
• Seasoned with operating, supporting and the security of mission-critical software applications.
• Understanding of different kinds of data stores (including relational data stores).
• Proven ability to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality, maintainable solutions.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and effectively prioritize work across multiple work streams.
• Demonstrated leadership beyond your own team - for example leading a guild, chapter, community of practice, or a cross-cutting engineering initiative (standards, hiring, onboarding, or culture).
• Strong facilitation, influencing, and communication skills, with the ability to drive change and build consensus across distributed teams without relying on direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Build solutions that avoid single points of failure, using scalable architectural patterns.
• Develop secure code so that our customers and ourselves are protected from malicious actors.
• Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Support the products you've built through their entire lifecycle, including in production and during incident management.
• Champion a healthy, inclusive engineering culture helping teams create, embed, and track action plans that measurably improve team and engineering productivity.
• Contribute to the review and evolution of the engineering career ladders, define IC expectations and responsibilities
• Drive improvements to job descriptions, interview processes, and assessment rubrics; help build interview guidelines, technical question banks, and exercise templates that raise hiring quality and fairness.
• Establish and sustain communities of practice (guilds / chapters) and office-hour sessions that operate across our wider organization, creating forums for engineers to share knowledge and solve problems together.
• Contribute to the operational model for shared code and reusable frameworks including scope, ownership and governance, reducing duplication and raising quality across teams.
• Help shape location and team strategy, engineering responsibility guidelines (e.g., on-call / production support, security ownership), and sustainable operating models that minimize support overhead while keeping systems reliable.

Skills

Back-end software engineering

Java

Testing

Cloud

RESTful APIs

Messaging

Security

Relational data stores

Coaching

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Facilitation & communication

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. invites applications for a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the International Consumer Bank.

You will work on back-end systems, craft scalable and secure solutions, and guide engineering culture across distributed teams to deliver exceptional digital banking experiences. This role emphasizes leadership beyond your own team, hands-on Java development, testing, cloud-native architectures, and collaboration across product and engineering communities to raise hiring quality,