Lead Software Engineer - Java - Developer experience- Nutmeg

Behind every investment is a person with ambitions, motivations and values. While we know that every client is unique, they come to Nutmeg for the same reason: our straightforward and transparent approach to investing.

Nutmeg is a J.P. Morgan company offering award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to over 250,000 investors in the UK. We built the business from scratch, with constant innovation a core part of our ethos since the beginning. We aim to provide clients with the best digital investing experience, ensuring digital security and customer satisfaction – meaning you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference. 

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, your role will be pivotal in our developer experience team. Your collaboration with architecture, product, and cloud engineers will be essential in defining solutions and strategies.. 

Our Developer Experience team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects – and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them. 

Job Responsibilities

• Obtain formal training or certification on software development lifecycle concepts and gain proficient advanced experience..
• Architect, evolve and promote solutions.
• Advocate good practices and principles through documentation and training.
• Create alignment with stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software development lifecycle concepts and proficient advanced experience.
• Excellent knowledge of software development lifecycle including instrumentation, analysis and optimisation.
• Excellent knowledge of continuous integration and delivery principles and tools.
• Excellent knowledge of workflows and build promotion cycle. 
• Excellent knowledge of observability principles and implementation.
• Good knowledge of Spring Boot and associated modules.
• Excellent knowledge of Micro-Service and Event-Driven architectures.
• Good knowledge of containerisation, including Kubernetes and ecosystem.
• Good knowledge of automation tools and infrastructure as code.
• Good knowledge of platform testability.
• Experience with cloud solutions- either AWS or GCP.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Good knowledge of Kafka and ecosystem, preferably Streams and Connect.
• Good knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Good knowledge of automation tools and infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform and Helm.
• Good writing skills, capable of producing supporting documentation.
• Team leading skills, capable of helping driving initiatives and strategies.
• Experience with shell scripting and other languages as Go, Kotlin and Python.

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