Staff Senior Lead Software Engineer Backend Platform

Behind every investment is a person with ambitionsmotivationsand 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 investmentsproductsand digital wealth management services to almost 300000 investors in the UK. We built the business with innovation as a core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within J.P. Morgan Personal Investing you will be a highly skilled hands-on Backend Engineer for the Platform team dedicated to building a Spring Boot based framework and robust libraries that support our product engineering teams.

This role combines deep technicalexpertisein Java and the Spring ecosystem with strong problem-solving abilities. You will work closely with SDLC and Infrastructure teams and play a pivotal role in driving standardization and promoting best practices across Investments technology landscape.

Job responsibilities

• Design develop andmaintainbackend libraries and frameworks using Java and Spring Boot tailored to the needs of asynchronous architecture that powers the Investments ecosystem.
• Build scalable reliable and secure components that provide out of the box implementations of non-functional requirements and controlscompliance andaccelerate feature delivery for product engineering teams.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions that improve their productivity and engineering experience.
• Drive initiatives to standardise development workflows tooling and processes across Platform and Product squads.
• Champion the adoption of engineering best practices coding standards and architectural guidelines across Investments and JP Morgans broader technology organisation.
• Providing technical direction mentorship and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Tackle complex technical challenges design innovative strategicsolutionsand provide guidance to the team.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.
• Close collaboration with SDLC and Infrastructure teams to enable delivery of Platform as a Product

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Strongproficiencyin Java and Spring Boot framework
• Experience with managing build tools such as Maven and Gradle and their role in SDLC standardisation.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles design patterns and best practices.
• A champion of security best practices in backend development.
• Experience with designing modern APIs micro-service architectures and distributed asynchronous systems withhigh levelof complexity
• Excellent communication mentoring and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive change and influence technical direction across teams.
• Understanding the needs of engineering teams
• Passion for driving standardisation process improvement and engineering excellence.
• Experience implementing and enforcing coding standards code reviews and automated testing.
• Understanding importance of controls and compliance in regulated organisations.

Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills

• Experience with building backend libraries and frameworks that were shared across multiple teamsand deep understanding of Spring Boot framework internals
• Experience with other scripting languages (e.g. Python Groovy Bash) andIaCtools (e.g. Terraform).
• Knowledge of observability tools (e.g. OTEL Grafana Dynatrace etc).
• Experience working in financial services investment platforms or similar regulated organisations.
• Hands-on experience building andmaintainingCI/CD platforms (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions).
• Experience with building self-serve tooling for engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams sprintplanningand backlog grooming