Location: LONDON, United Kingdom

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Securities Lending, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for developing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems​.
• Creating user interfaces and interactive features for web applications using languages and frameworks.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others​.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems​.
• Leads evaluation sessions with internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture​.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies​.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect​.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability​.
• Experience in software development of Micro services with Java, Spring Boot, Python​.
• Experience with cloud technologies and distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies​.
• Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL databases such as Oracle.
• Knowledge of Restful Web Services, WebSockets/JSON​​.
• Advanced Proficiency in front-end languages and libraries (e.g.C#, React) and back-end languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Spring, Python etc.) and practical cloud native experience.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle​ and proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security​.
• Experience with  build  and Integration Tools, including knowledge of JIRA, Maven, Git, Jenkins, GitHub and BitBucket is required.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.)​.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working across the entire Software Development Life Cycle in a large corporate environment.
• Completed AWS Developer or Solution Architect Certification​.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems​.
• Observability and production management tools (ex. Splunk / Dynatrace / Grafana).
• A keen interest in staying ahead of modern development trends and experimenting with emerging technologies such as AI and Machine Learning.

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build and deliver top-notch technology products