Lead Software Engineer- Back End Platform- JPM Personal Investing
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21 hours ago
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Job Summary
Behind every investment is a person with ambitions motivations and values. While we know that every client is unique they come to J.P. Morgan Personal Investing for the same reason: our straightforward and transparent approach to investing and the trust that 150 years of J.P. Morgan heritage brings.
J.P. Morgan Personal Investing offers award-winning investments products and digital wealth management services to over 275000 investors in the UK. We built the business withinnovation as a core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals.
Job Summary:
As a Backend Platform Engineer in the Personal Investments Backend Platform team you will lead a squad dedicated to building scalable backend frameworks and libraries. You will work closely with SDLC Infrastructure and Product teams to drive standardisation and promote engineering excellence. Your role empowers product engineering teams to deliver innovative investment products efficiently and securely. You will foster collaboration mentor team members and ensure our technology landscape remains robust and forward-thinking.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design develop and maintain backend libraries and frameworks using Java and Spring Boot
- Build scalable reliable and secure components that provide out of the box implementations of non-functional requirements and controls compliance and accelerate feature delivery
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to deliver solutions that improve productivity and engineering experience
- Drive standardisation of development workflows tooling and processes
- Champion the adoption of engineering best practices coding standards and architectural guidelines
- Lead a backend and platform focused squad providing technical direction and mentorship
- Drive sprint planning backlog grooming and timely delivery of objectives
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development within the team
- Partner with SDLC and Infrastructure teams to deliver Platform as a Product
- Tackle complex technical challenges and design innovative strategic solutions
- Act as a technical point of contact for platform-related issues and escalations
Required Qualifications Capabilities and Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot with a track record of building backend libraries and frameworks
- Experience with managing build tools such as Maven and Gradle and understanding their role in SDLC standardisation
- Solid understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns
- Commitment to security best practices in backend development
- Strong experience in designing APIs (GraphQL and REST) micro-service architectures and distributed asynchronous systems
- Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams or squads ideally in a regulated environment
- Excellent communication mentoring and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to drive change and influence technical direction with focus on Standardisation & Process Improvement
- Passion for standardisation process improvement and engineering excellence
- Experience implementing coding standards code reviews and automated testing
- Understanding of controls and compliance in regulated organisations
Preferred Qualifications Capabilities and Skills:
- Experience with scripting languages (Python Groovy Bash) and IaC tools (Terraform)
Knowledge of observability tools (OTEL Grafana Dynatrace)
Experience in financial services investment platforms or regulated organisations
Hands-on experience with SDLC DevEx & DevOps building and maintaining CI/CD platforms (Jenkins GitHub Actions)
Experience building self-service tooling for engineering teams
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code containerisation (Docker Kubernetes) and AWS
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Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans ov ... View more
