Senior Lead Software Engineer- Backend Engineer - Chase UK
JP Morgan Chase
In this role you will deliver cloud-native microservice solutions for a leading consumer bank, enabling scalable and reliable digital banking experiences. You will work within the International Consumer Bank as part of a diverse, distributed team focused on building trusted, customer-centric products. You’ll tackle end-to-end engineering challenges—from design and testing to secure coding and production operations—impacting onboarding, payments, and servicing experiences. This is an opportunity to shape modern banking platforms at scale, embracing new technologies and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities- Deliver end-to-end cloud-native microservice solutions using modern technologies and best practices
- Apply domain modeling to build robust business products
- Structure software for ease of testing, maintenance, and evolution
- Design scalable architectures to avoid single points of failure
- Develop secure, hardened software to protect customers and systems
- Investigate and remediate issues promptly to prevent recurrence
- Coordinate releases with zero downtime and optimal data access patterns
- Monitor performance and ensure reliable, operable systems
- Keep technologies and patterns up to date and support products through lifecycle
- Formal training or certification in software engineering with applied experience
- Recent hands-on experience as a back-end software engineer
- Proficiency in Java
- Experience designing and implementing various tests (unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, etc.)
- Excellent written and verbal English communication
- Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies
- Knowledge of messaging frameworks
- Experience operating, supporting, and securing mission-critical software
- Understanding of relational data stores
- Ability to coach teammates on coding practices and design principles
- Stakeholder management and multi-stream prioritization
- strong communication
- team coaching
- stakeholder management
- Java
- cloud technologies
- RESTful APIs
Reference: WJ-747_30157136