JPMorgan Lead Software Engineer - Backend Engineering 

United Kingdom, England, London 

611130333

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.
• 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.
• Contribute to 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.
• Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
• Keep us up to date by continuously updating our technologies and patterns.

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 any of: Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus
• 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 platform such as GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD
• Strong relational database skills
• A desire to teach others and share knowledge. We aren’t looking for hero developers, more for team players. We want you to coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns
• Comfortable in uncharted waters. We are building something new. Things change quickly. We need you to learn technologies and patterns quickly
• Ability to see the long term. We don’t want you to sacrifice the future for the present. We want you to choose 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 building Loyalty and Reward platforms including ledgers and reward engines
• Experience building and maintaining APIs for use by third parties
• 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 building debit and credit card products linked to rewards offerings
• Experience using Kafka
• Experience using of non-relational databases