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Lead Software Engineering - Java/Kotlin

241387-Comp & Ben Admin Prof Fees
Full-time
On-site
London, United Kingdom
Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to innovate, build, enhance and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Investment Bank you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

  • Use domain modeling techniques to allow us to build best in class business products.
  • Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
  • Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end and performance tests.
  • Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
  • Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, and secure solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications, leveraging modern technologies and the best industry practices.
  • Contributes to the problem at hand, even when outside their area of speciality.
  • Contribute to and be an advocate for high quality technical architecture design.
  • Investigate and fix issues promptly and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
  • Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
  • See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
  • Keep an eye on performance, making sure we use the right approach to identify and solve problems.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skillsΒ 

  • Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java concepts and proficient advanced experience (if Java, a willingness to learn Kotlin).
  • Experience building RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
  • Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements.
  • Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns.
  • Experience with a modern CI/CD platforms such Circle Ci.
  • Experience with modern version control platform such as GitHub.
  • A desire to teach others and share knowledge. A team player mindset where you want you to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns.
  • Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Learns technologies and patterns quickly. Comfortable in uncharted waters.
  • Ability to see the long term by choosing suitable technologies and approaches based on the end goals.
  • High standards. We are looking for people who expect personal performance and team performance to be nothing short of the best.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skillsΒ 

  • Experience designing and building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, GCP).
  • Experience building and deploying on Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform).
  • Experience using Kafka.
  • Experience using both relational databases (e.g. Postgres) non-relational databases (e.g. DyanamoDB).