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Lead Software Engineer
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom["Full time"]
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within our Commercial and
Investment Bank, Payments Technology team 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 delivering critical technology solutions
across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of
the firm’s business objectives.
Job Responsibilities
• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical
troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine or conventional approaches to build
solutions or break down technical problems.
• Deliver end-to-end solutions in the form of cloud-native, microservices-based
applications, leveraging the latest technologies and best industry practices.
• Use domain modeling techniques to build best-in-class business products,
structuring software for clarity, testability, and evolution.
• 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 communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness
and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering
practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery
speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring,
test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while
establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review,
automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle
toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and
automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
• Continuously update technologies and patterns to keep systems current.
• Design and build solutions that avoid single points of failure using scalable
architectural patterns.
• Design and build scalable, secure, and reliable solutions by leveraging
modern architectural patterns that ensure zero-downtime releases and optimize
data performance.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and
hands-on experience in software engineering, including system design,
application development, testing, and operational support.
• Proficiency in back-end technologies (e.g., Java, Python Springboot, Node.js
) with experience building microservices-based applications; for full-stack
roles, proficiency also includes front-end technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS,
JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular).
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve design and functionality
challenges with minimal supervision.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), distributed
systems, and web technologies, including RESTful APIs and web services,
WebSockets, and JSON.
• Hands-on experience designing and building scalable applications using SQL
and NoSQL databases.
• Understanding of application resiliency
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted
software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration,
troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI
outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows,
including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs,
and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching
engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application
Resiliency, and Security.
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes
within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine
learning, mobile, etc.).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Strong soft skills, including presentation, negotiation, mentoring, and
stakeholder management.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Ability to drive broader impact by sharing and contributing best practices.
• Experience in the banking domain.
• AWS certification.
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
[https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/how-we-hire/faqs] for more information about
requesting an accommodation.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking,
markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and
institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than
100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice,
raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.