Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java

Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java

Full-Time 60000 - 80000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
JPMorganChase

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Design and deliver innovative tech solutions in a dynamic finance environment.
  • Company: Join a leading finance technology team focused on diversity and inclusion.
  • Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
  • Other info: Be part of a diverse team driving innovation and excellence.
  • Why this job: Lead impactful projects and shape the future of finance technology.
  • Qualifications: Experience in software engineering, particularly with Java or Spark.

The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer in the Finance Technology Team, you will design and deliver trusted, market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will carry out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas to support our business objectives. You'll work as a seasoned member of an agile team, shaping the direction of technology and process implementations. Your role will help foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team culture while driving impactful results.

Responsibilities

  • Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to build innovative solutions.
  • Define and lead technology and process implementations across groups to achieve firmwide objectives.
  • Create secure, high‑quality production code and maintain algorithms that run synchronously with systems.
  • Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring design constraints are met.
  • Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualisations and reporting from large, diverse data sets.
  • Identify hidden problems and patterns in data to drive improvements in coding hygiene and system architecture.
  • Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events exploring new and emerging technologies.
  • Add to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
  • Provide leadership and high‑level direction to multiple feature teams both regionally and globally.

Required Qualifications

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
  • Hands‑on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
  • Proficient in coding in one or more languages such as Java or Spark.
  • Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with modern programming and database querying languages.
  • Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
  • Understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile).
  • Ability to solve data‑oriented problems using technologies such as SQL, Relational DB, Spark, NoSQL, optimizing for performance.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Spark performance tuning of complex calculations on large datasets.
  • Experience delivering production changes to complex software using Scala and Spark.
  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts.

If you’re ready to lead, innovate, and make an impact, we invite you to join our team and shape the future of finance technology with us. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.

JPMorganChase

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JPMorganChase Recruitment Team

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Java
Spark
System Design
Application Development
Testing
Operational Stability
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)