Senior Java Engineer & Tech Lead – Payments Platform

Euspert - Appcast - CPC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture, coding, and delivery across the full software lifecycle. You will spend ~70% on deep technical execution and ~30% on leadership, mentoring, and setting direction, with ownership from design to production support.

The role emphasizes pragmatic architecture, setting technical bar, and coaching engineers to deliver high-quality solutions for global payments and financial services systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages.
• Experience with CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Develop secure production code and review code written by others.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring issues and improve stability.
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors and internal teams on designs.

Skills

System design

Application development

Testing

Operational stability

Programming languages

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Cloud native

AI/ML awareness

Financial services knowledge

Practical cloud native experience

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science

Tools

Kafka

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

RDBMS

NoSQL databases

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture, coding, and delivery across the full software lifecycle. You will spend ~70% on deep technical execution and ~30% on leadership, mentoring, and setting direction, with ownership from design to production support.

The role emphasizes pragmatic architecture, setting technical bar, and coaching engineers to deliver high-quality solutions for global payments and financial services systems.