Senior Lead Software Engineer in London

Senior Lead Software Engineer in London

London Full-Time No working from home possible
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Salary: Β£62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, plus advanced applied experience
  • Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced Java and TypeScript experience
  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools, with the ability to set expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and resiliency and security expectations
  • Experience coaching senior engineers or leads on compliant AI usage patterns and controls
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Practical cloud-native experience
  • Preferred: experience building UI and UX solutions with React
  • Preferred: knowledge of Scala
  • Preferred: experience with domain-specific language design and interpretation
  • Preferred: knowledge of domain-driven design
  • Preferred: knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases

Responsibilities

  • We lead the engineering of cutting-edge solutions in metadata, metamodeling, and distributed systems
  • We provide technical guidance and direction to business teams, contractors, and vendors
  • We develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others
  • We drive adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes
  • We establish measurable validation standards, including secure coding, peer review, automated testing, and reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain
  • We apply knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle tools, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale
  • We drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  • We serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  • We actively contribute to the engineering community as advocates of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Technologies

  • AI
  • Cloud
  • Support
  • Java
  • NoSQL
  • React
  • SQL
  • Scala
  • Security
  • TypeScript
  • UX UI Design
  • DDD

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We are JPMorganChase, a global leader in financial services and a first-class business serving clients with trusted, long-term partnerships. Our Commercial & Investment Bank operates across banking, markets, securities services, and payments in more than 100 countries. You will join our Data Platforms team within the Chief Data & Analytics Office as part of an agile environment focused on building secure, stable, scalable, and market-leading technology products. We value diversity and inclusion, support reasonable accommodations, and offer the opportunity to work on intellectually challenging, cloud-based engineering problems involving full-stack programming, agentic techniques, meta-programming, domain-specific languages, and interpreter design.

last updated 36 week of 2026

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Senior Lead Software Engineer in London employer: JP Morgan Chase

Morgan is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that prioritises diversity and inclusion while fostering employee growth through comprehensive coaching and development opportunities. As a global leader in financial services, we empower our teams to drive impactful product management and AI enablement, ensuring that every employee can contribute meaningfully to our clients' success in a collaborative environment located at the heart of the financial sector.

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Contact Details:

JP Morgan Chase Recruitment Team