JPMorgan Principal Software Engineer - Payments Engineering Lead 

United Kingdom, England, London 

274088935

Job responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems into technical specifications that an engineering team can implement under your guidance
• Lead and participate in regular technical meetings, ensuring that architectural decisions align with the broader organizational goals and strategy
• Own and deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices
• Design and implement technical solutions written in Java
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end and performance tests
• Influence not just the technology strategy but the shape the product as well
• Support the products you've built through their entire life cycle, including production and incident management

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
• In-depth knowledge of Java concepts and significant commercial experience using it
• Experience with different architecture patterns and appreciation of their trade-offs (microservices, event-driven, hexagonal, cloud native)
• Hands-on experience in architecting large-scale distributed systems with high degree of availability, fault-tolerance and scalability
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs with any of: Spring Boot, Micronaut, Quarkus
• Experience designing and building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, GCP)
• Curious and comfortable with exploring new business domains with the ability to consider both the technology and product angle
• 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 highly scalable, resilient and secure payments products and workflows
• In-depth knowledge and integration experience with payment schemes such as FPS, BACS, SEPA, SWIFT and familiarity with industry standards such as ISO20022
• Experience with Open Banking products
• Understanding of global payment regulations and compliance requirements such as PSD2, AML, KYC, GDPR
• Experience working with container orchestration solutions, such as Kubernetes