Senior Lead Backend Engineer (Java/Kotlin) - Fintech

Testing Site - JPMC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase's Accelerator team is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive high-impact fintech products and empower teams to ship quickly.

You will design scalable JVM-based systems, emphasize testability, resilience, and secure code, and collaborate across squads to turn ideas into customer-facing solutions.

The role values curiosity, collaboration, and pragmatic engineering, with opportunities to move between product areas and modernize architectures.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in problem solving concepts and proficient applied experience.
• Identifies problems, proposes solutions, suggests what's best to focus on. Sees themselves as a problem solver.
• Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of speciality.
• A desire to teach others and share knowledge. We aren’t looking for hero developers, more for team players.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Learns and unlearns technologies and patterns quickly. Comfortable in uncharted waters.
• Can see the long term. Won’t sacrifice the future for the present. Chooses technologies and approaches based on the end goals.
• High standards. Expects personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.
• Does not cut corners ethically. Earns and maintains trust.
• Does what's best for the company, rather than what's best for themselves or their team.
• Able to take the initiative and shape their own path and a pragmatic and iterative approach to achieving our long term goals

Responsibilities

• Use domain modeling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.
• Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
• 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.
• Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
• See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
• Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems.
• Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
• Keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.

Skills

Problem solving

Team player

Mentoring

Adaptable

Initiative

Long-term thinking

High standards

Ethical judgment

Solution oriented

Fintech domain

Tools

Java/Kotlin

Open source

Cloud native

Multi-cloud

Job description

JPMorganChase's Accelerator team is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to drive high-impact fintech products and empower teams to ship quickly.

You will design scalable JVM-based systems, emphasize testability, resilience, and secure code, and collaborate across squads to turn ideas into customer-facing solutions.

The role values curiosity, collaboration, and pragmatic engineering, with opportunities to move between product areas and modernize architectures.