Senior Lead Backend Engineer (Java & Spring)

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Platform team as a hands-on Backend engineer. You will build a Spring Boot-based framework and robust libraries to support product engineering teams across the Investments ecosystem.

The role blends deep Java/Spring expertise with strong problem-solving, design skills, and a drive to standardise workflows, tooling and engineering practices across JP Morgan's technology landscape.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot framework.
• Experience with Maven and Gradle and their role in SDLC standardisation.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Champion of security best practices in backend development.
• Experience with designing modern APIs, micro-service architectures, and distributed asynchronous systems with high level of complexity
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive change and influence technical direction across teams.
• Understanding the needs of engineering teams
• Passion for driving standardisation, process improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Experience implementing and enforcing coding standards, code reviews, and automated testing.
• Understanding importance of controls and compliance in regulated organisations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend libraries and frameworks using Java and Spring Boot, tailored to asynchronous architecture that powers the Investments' ecosystem.
• Build scalable, reliable, and secure components that provide out of the box implementations of non-functional requirements and controls compliance and accelerate feature delivery for product engineering teams.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions that improve their productivity and engineering experience.
• Drive initiatives to standardise development workflows, tooling, and processes across Platform and Product squads.
• Champion the adoption of engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines across Investments' and JP Morgan's broader technology organisation.
• Providing technical direction, mentorship, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Tackle complex technical challenges, design innovative strategic solutions and provide guidance to the team.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.
• Close collaboration with SDLC and Infrastructure teams to enable delivery of Platform as a Product

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Maven

Gradle

SDLC

Security best practices

APIs / microservices design

Distributed asynchronous systems

Communication & mentoring

Architectural guidelines

Coding standards & reviews

Compliance awareness

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

OTEL / Observability tools

Grafana

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join the Platform team as a hands-on Backend engineer. You will build a Spring Boot-based framework and robust libraries to support product engineering teams across the Investments ecosystem.

The role blends deep Java/Spring expertise with strong problem-solving, design skills, and a drive to standardise workflows, tooling and engineering practices across JP Morgan's technology landscape.