Lead Software Engineer - Platform

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 almost 300,000 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 Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within J.P. Morgan Personal Investing, you will join a Backend Engineering Platform team dedicated to building a Spring Boot based framework and libraries that enable our product engineering teams to build and run financial services at scale. 

This hands-on role combines deep technical expertise in 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, and maintain backend frameworks and libraries using Java and Spring Boot. 
• Build components that provide out of the box implementations of functional and non-functional requirements. 
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions that improve their productivity and engineering experience. 
• Tackle complex technical challenges, design innovative strategic solutions and provide guidance to the team. 
• Close collaboration with SDLC and Infrastructure teams to enable delivery of Platform as a Product 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot (or similar) framework. 
• Experience with managing build tools such as Maven and Gradle and their role in SDLC standardisation. 
• Experience with building APIs in micro-service-oriented architectures and distributed systems with high level of complexity. 
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices. 
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills. 
• Understanding the needs of engineering teams with the ability to drive change and influence their technical direction.
• Passion for driving standardisation, process improvement, and engineering excellence. 
• Understanding importance of controls and compliance in regulated organisations. 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Experience with designing libraries that have been used across multiple engineering teams. 
• Deep understanding of Spring and Spring Boot internals. 
• Experience working in financial services, investment platforms, or similar regulated organisations. 
• Experience with building self-serve tooling for engineering teams. 
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.