Senior Lead Backend Engineer - Cloud-Native Banking

Aumni; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is recruiting a Senior Lead Software Engineer for its UK-based International Consumer Bank. You will drive end-to-end cloud-native microservices, focusing on secure, scalable backend services and AI-assisted development practices within a distributed engineering team.

You will work on areas including identity services, money transfers, core banking and fraud prevention while mentoring engineers and coordinating with stakeholders across product lines.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Recent hands-on experience as a back-end software engineer.
• Experience coding in Java.
• Experience designing and implementing tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance).
• Excellent written and verbal English.
• Experience with cloud technologies, distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.
• Knowledge of messaging frameworks.
• Seasoned with operating, supporting and securing mission critical software applications.
• Understanding of relational data stores.
• Coach other team members on coding practices and design principles.
• Experience leading use of enterprise AI-assisted development tools and setting validation standards.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end cloud-native microservices architecture solutions.
• Apply domain modelling to build scalable business products.
• Structure software to be easy to understand, test and evolve.
• Build solutions with no single points of failure and scalable patterns.
• Develop secure code protecting customers and systems.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure releases occur with zero downtime for users.
• Ensure data is written and read for optimal performance.
• Monitor performance and optimize approaches for problems.
• Keep systems reliable and easy to operate; update technologies and patterns.
• Support products through their lifecycle, including production and incident management.
• Drive AI-assisted coding governance to improve quality, speed and operations.

Skills

Java

Cloud tech

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Secure coding

Relational DB

AI-assisted tools

Coaching others

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Formal software engineering training

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is recruiting a Senior Lead Software Engineer for its UK-based International Consumer Bank. You will drive end-to-end cloud-native microservices, focusing on secure, scalable backend services and AI-assisted development practices within a distributed engineering team.

You will work on areas including identity services, money transfers, core banking and fraud prevention while mentoring engineers and coordinating with stakeholders across product lines.