Senior Lead Software Engineer (Engineering Community & Enablement)

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is hiring a Senior Lead Software Engineer for the International Consumer Bank. You will lead backend engineering as part of a distributed, diverse team, shaping engineering culture and delivering high-quality banking software.

Responsibilities include building scalable, secure systems, guiding interview standards, and driving cross-team collaboration while maintaining production readiness and incident readiness.

Qualifications

• Recent hands-on back-end software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Java and modern back-end frameworks.
• Experience with testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.
• Knowledge of messaging frameworks.
• Experience operating and securing mission-critical software.
• Understanding of relational data stores.
• Ability to coach others on coding practices and design principles.
• Stakeholder management and prioritization across streams.
• Leadership beyond own team (guilds/chapters) and cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Build solutions that avoid single points of failure using scalable architectural patterns.
• Develop secure code to protect customers and systems.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly to prevent recurrence.
• Support products throughout their lifecycle, including production and incident management.
• Champion a healthy engineering culture and drive productivity improvements.
• Contribute to engineering career ladders, IC expectations, and responsibilities.
• Drive improvements to job descriptions, interview processes, and assessment rubrics.
• Establish communities of practice and office-hour sessions across the organization.
• Contribute to reusable code frameworks with clear ownership and governance.

Skills

Back-end development

Java programming

Testing (unit/integration)

Cloud & distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Messaging frameworks

Security

Relational data stores

Mentoring / coaching

Stakeholder management

Leadership beyond team

Facilitation & communication

Tools

AWS

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Back-End Engineering team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting a great banking experience into the hands of our customers - and shaping the engineering culture that builds it.

At JPMorgan Chase, we understand that customers seek exceptional value and a seamless experience from a trusted financial institution. That's why we launched Chase UK to transform digital banking with intuitive and enjoyable customer journeys. With a strong foundation of trust established by millions of customers in the US, we have been rapidly expanding our presence in the UK and soon across Europe. We have been building the bank of the future from the ground up, offering you the chance to join us and make a significant impact.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will play a crucial role in this initiative, dedicated to delivering an outstanding banking experience to our customers. You will work in a collaborative environment as part of a diverse, inclusive, and geographically distributed team. We are seeking individuals with a curious mindset and a keen interest in new technology. Our engineers are naturally solution-oriented and possess an interest in the financial sector and focus on addressing customer needs. We work in teams focused on specific products and projects, providing opportunities to engage in areas such as fraud & financial crime prevention, identity services, money transfers, card payments, lending, customer onboarding, core banking, insurance products, rewards campaigns, and servicing innovations.

Beyond delivering software, you will act as an Engineering Community Lead - a force multiplier across the wider organization. You will drive our Engineering Community pillars of Career Development, Culture, Team Operational Model, and Collaboration, helping raise the bar on how we hire, grow, share knowledge and set technical standards across org wider organization.

Job Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Support the products you've built through their entire lifecycle, including in production and during incident management.
• Champion a healthy, inclusive engineering culture helping teams create, embed, and track action plans that measurably improve team and engineering productivity.
• Contribute to the review and evolution of the engineering career ladders, define IC expectations and responsibilities
• Drive improvements to job descriptions, interview processes, and assessment rubrics; help build interview guidelines, technical question banks, and exercise templates that raise hiring quality and fairness.
• Establish and sustain communities of practice (guilds / chapters) and office-hour sessions that operate across our wider organization, creating forums for engineers to share knowledge and solve problems together.
• Contribute to the operational model for shared code and reusable frameworks including scope, ownership and governance, reducing duplication and raising quality across teams.

Help shape location and team strategy, engineering responsibility guidelines (e.g., on-call / production support, security ownership), and sustainable operating models that minimize support overhead while keeping systems reliable.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer.
• Experience in coding in a recent version of the Java programming language.
• Experience in designing and implementing effective tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.).
• Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies.
• Knowledge of messaging frameworks.
• Seasoned with operating, supporting and the security of mission-critical software applications.
• Understanding of different kinds of data stores (including relational data stores).
• Proven ability to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality, maintainable solutions.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and effectively prioritize work across multiple work streams.
• Demonstrated leadership beyond your own team - for example leading a guild, chapter, community of practice, or a cross-cutting engineering initiative (standards, hiring, onboarding, or culture).

Strong facilitation, influencing, and communication skills, with the ability to drive change and build consensus across distributed teams without relying on direct authority.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills:

• Experience in working in a highly regulated environment / industry.
• Seasoned with cloud-native microservices architecture.
• Proficient with AWS cloud technologies.
• Experience developing engineering career frameworks, interview/hiring processes, or technical standards at an organizational level.
• Experience organizing knowledge-sharing programmes (tech talks, guilds, office hours) and mentoring engineers.

Familiarity with using engagement survey data to drive concrete, measurable culture and operational improvements.

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ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.