Senior Backend Engineer Lead – FinTech, AI-Driven & Scalable

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Accelerator business. You’ll be at the heart of turning smart ideas into customer-ready products, working in squads across fintech domains.

You will model domains, craft scalable architectures, and push secure, high-quality code with AI-assisted tooling. This role rewards curiosity, collaboration, and a customer-centered mindset, with opportunities to mentor and grow within multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on problem-solving concepts and proficient applied experience.
• Identifies problems, proposes solutions, and focuses on what’s best for the team.
• Demonstrates willingness to teach others and share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Use domain modeling techniques to build best in class business products.
• Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
• Build solutions with scalable architectural patterns to avoid single points of failure.
• Develop secure code to protect customers and systems.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure releases happen with zero downtime for end users.
• Optimize data access for performance and reliability.
• Keep systems reliable and easy to operate and updated.

Skills

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Adaptability

Mentoring/Teaching

Leadership

Tools

Java

Kotlin

AI-assisted tools

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer within the Accelerator business. You’ll be at the heart of turning smart ideas into customer-ready products, working in squads across fintech domains.

You will model domains, craft scalable architectures, and push secure, high-quality code with AI-assisted tooling. This role rewards curiosity, collaboration, and a customer-centered mindset, with opportunities to mentor and grow within multi-cloud environments.