Junior Software Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

Step into a high-growth environment where your expertise in AI/ML and AWS will help shape and deliver game-changing business outcomes.

As a Lead Software Engineer, fullstack developer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Technology division, you will serve as a leader within an agile team, designing and delivering strategic uplifts to market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.

Specifically, you will work on a global platform responsible for the management of Equity loan products and be responsible for adding AI/ML functionality to improve our user experience, as well as driving our journey to the cloud.

• Spearhead the delivery of greenfield initiative to transform the storage and access of loan related legal documentation, using AI to uplift users analysis capabilities.
• Work with key stakeholders in Trading, QR, Operations and others globally to ensure the loan management platforms, both internally and client facing, deliver a world class experience.
• Directly contribute to the ongoing efforts to re-engineer & re-architect existing platforms to make them performant, highly available, stable, efficient, and scalable.
• Lead and contribute to the identification and implementation of solutions for recurring issues, with the aim of improving overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Lead design and architecture discussions to leverage new and emerging technologies, to solve complex business deliveries.
• Offer leadership, support, and clear direction to team members globally to enhance the overall team's performance.

• Formal training or certification on Python and React concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Proven track record of high quality, on time delivery for the business.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages.
• Good overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, and advanced proficiency.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, application resiliency, and system integration.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Minimum six years of experience in a similar role.
• Education to degree level, ideally in a computer science, mathematical or engineering discipline or equivalent experience.

• Experienced with Python and Typescript.
• Familiarity with cloud-based technologies, preferably AWS.
• Experience with order management and trading user interfaces, with knowledge of Athena.
• Practical experience with AWS.
• Understanding of financial products, specifically equity based loans.