Staff / Senior Lead Software Engineer - Backend Platform

Behind every investment is a person with ambitions, motivations and values. While we know that every client is unique, they come to J.P. Morgan Personal Investing for the same reason: our straightforward and transparent approach to investing, and the trust that 150 years of J.P. Morgan heritage brings.

J.P. Morgan Personal Investing offers award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to almost 300,000 investors in the UK. We built the business with innovation as a core part of our ethos to give consumers the confidence and clarity to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within J.P. Morgan Personal Investing, you will be a highly skilled hands-on Backend Engineer for the Platform team dedicated to building a Spring Boot based framework and robust libraries that support our product engineering teams.

This role combines deep technical expertise in Java and the Spring ecosystem, with strong problem-solving abilities. You will work closely with SDLC and Infrastructure teams and play a pivotal role in driving standardization and promoting best practices across Investments' technology landscape.

Job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend libraries and frameworks using Java and Spring Boot, tailored to the needs of asynchronous architecture that powers the Investments' ecosystem.
• Build scalable, reliable, and secure components that provide out of the box implementations of non-functional requirements and controls compliance and accelerate feature delivery for product engineering teams.
• Collaborate closely with product engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions that improve their productivity and engineering experience.
• Drive initiatives to standardise development workflows, tooling, and processes across Platform and Product squads.
• Champion the adoption of engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines across Investments' and JP Morgan’s broader technology organisation.
• Providing technical direction, mentorship, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Tackle complex technical challenges, design innovative strategic solutions and provide guidance to the team.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.
• Close collaboration with SDLC and Infrastructure teams to enable delivery of Platform as a Product

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot framework
• Experience with managing build tools such as Maven and Gradle and their role in SDLC standardisation.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• A champion of security best practices in backend development.
• Experience with designing modern APIs, micro-service architectures, and distributed asynchronous systems with high level of complexity
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to drive change and influence technical direction across teams.
• Understanding the needs of engineering teams
• Passion for driving standardisation, process improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Experience implementing and enforcing coding standards, code reviews, and automated testing.
• Understanding importance of controls and compliance in regulated organisations.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with building backend libraries and frameworks that were shared across multiple teams and deep understanding of Spring Boot framework internals
• Experience with other scripting languages (e.g. Python, Groovy, Bash) and IaC tools (e.g. Terraform).
• Knowledge of observability tools (e.g. OTEL, Grafana, Dynatrace etc).
• Experience working in financial services, investment platforms, or similar regulated organisations.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD platforms (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with building self-serve tooling for engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams, sprint planning and backlog grooming,