JPMorgan Lead Software Engineering - Java/Kotlin 

United Kingdom, England, London 

499756465

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 skills

• 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 skills

• 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).