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Lead Software Engineer - Java

AT JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase

Lead Software Engineer - Java

London, United Kingdom

Born from the successful launch of Chase in 2021, we're a team dedicated to creating customer-centric products that address real-world problems. Our success hinges on our people-first approach, fostering an environment that encourages skill development, collaboration, curiosity, and commitment.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the accelerator, you are the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. You have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By your nature, you are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. You thrive in working in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects - and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them.

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While we're looking for professional skills, culture is just as important to us. We understand that everyone's unique - and that diversity of thought, experience and background is what makes a good team, great. By bringing people with different points of view together, we can represent everyone and truly reflect the communities we serve. This way, there's scope for you to make a huge difference - on us as a company, and on our clients and business partners around the world

Job responsibilities

  • Deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices.
  • Design and implement technical solutions written in Java
  • Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end & performance tests
  • Contribute to microservice architecture design
  • Support the products you've built through their entire life cycle, including production and incident management

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on Java concepts and proficient advanced experience
  • Experience building RESTful APIs and microservices with any of: Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus
  • Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements (example platforms: Wise, PayPal) & knowledge of modern software architecture patterns
  • Strong relational database skills
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform) and Docker
  • Knowledge of Kafka/Pulsar

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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 Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You'll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.

Client-provided location(s): London, UK
Job ID: JPMorgan-210483246
Employment Type: Full Time