Software Engineer II - Platform Engineering - Chase UK

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a Software Engineer II to enhance the banking experience. This role involves collaboration within a diverse team, focusing on developing solutions, quality code, and maintaining systems. Ideal candidates are curious tech enthusiasts with experience in modern programming languages and Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with modern front-end or back-end technologies.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages.
• Experience with tools such as GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Terraform Cloud, etc.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to enhance the developer experience.
• Execute software solutions, design and develop applications.
• Create secure and high-quality production code.

Skills

Problem-solving skills

Curiosity

Collaboration

Proficiency in Python

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Overview

As a Software Engineer II 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 our customer needs. We work in teams focused on Platform Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to enhance the developer experience, providing tools and infrastructure that support agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment.
• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Create secure and high-quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
• Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets to continuously improve software applications and systems.
• Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data, using insights to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new and emerging technologies.
• Add to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with modern programming languages (e.g., Python) and database querying languages.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, mobile).
• Experience with Public Cloud services in Production (e.g., AWS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform).

Qualifications

• Familiarity with modern front-end or back-end technologies.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages.
• Experience with tools such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Terraform Cloud, Slack, Grafana, SonarQube is a plus.

Company overview

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. 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.