Lead Software Engineer - FIXED INCOME UK

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Post Trade Technology Group, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others

• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems

• Leads evaluation sessions with business stakeholders, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture

• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate engineering work while maintaining controls, including:

  • Drafting/refactoring code and documentation with validation via tests, code review, and static/security scanning.
  • Generating and expanding test scenarios (edge cases, regression suites) and verifying correctness/coverage.
  • Assisting with troubleshooting by summarizing signals (logs/alerts/traces) and proposing hypotheses, confirmed through reproducible investigation.

• Apply responsible AI practices: protect sensitive data, avoid inappropriate input of confidential information, and treat AI output as non-authoritative until verified.

• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience

• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)

• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods

• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

• Proficient in full stack development skill Java 21, REACT or any other frameworks , building into Public Cloud and CD/CD strategies.

• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality, with a strong verification mindset (tests + peer review).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems

• Practical cloud native experience

• Experience with observability tooling and practices (structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing) and incident/problem management.

Work Style / Ways of Working

• Strong communication skills, ownership mindset, and ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and operations.

• Commitment to inclusive teamwork and continuous improvement in engineering practices and delivery excellence.