Senior Lead Software Engineer - Backend Engineering - Java/Kotlin
JP Morgan Chase · London, England ·
Overview
In this role you drive the transformation of ideas into customer-facing fintech products within the Accelerator business. You will shape scalable, secure software through thoughtful domain modeling and architecture, collaborating with cross-functional squads. You’ll tackle performance, reliability, and up-to-date technology challenges to deliver zero-downtime releases. This role blends technical leadership with a culture that values curiosity, collaboration and diversity, offering meaningful impact on real-world customers.
Responsibilities
- Apply domain modeling to build best-in-class business products
- Structure code for clarity, testability, and evolvability
- Use scalable architectural patterns to avoid single points of failure
- Develop secure code to protect customers and the platform
- Investigate and fix issues quickly to prevent recurrences
- Coordinate releases with zero downtime for end users
- Optimize data access patterns for performance
- Ensure reliability and ease of operation of systems
- Continuously update technologies and design patterns
Key requirements
- Formal training or certification in problem-solving concepts and applied experience
- Identifies problems, proposes solutions, and prioritizes focus
- Contributes beyond own area of specialization and participates as a team player
- Desire to teach others and share knowledge
- Adapts quickly to changing priorities and complexity
- Learns new technologies rapidly and remains comfortable in uncharted areas
- Sees long-term value, choosing technologies to meet end goals
- Maintains high personal and team performance standards and ethical integrity
- Takes initiative and follows a pragmatic, iterative path toward long-term goals
- team player
- teaches others
- adaptability
- JVM-based languages (Java/Kotlin)
- cloud-native and multi-cloud architecture
- open source technologies when appropriate
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