Senior Lead Software Engineer - Backend Platform

LONDON, United Kingdom

• Job Identification
• Job Category Software Engineering
• Business Unit Corporate Sector
• Posting Date 04/03/2026, 09:11 AM
• Locations 1 Cabot Square, London, E14 4QJ
  , GB
• Job Schedule Full time

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.

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Behind every investment is a person with ambitions,motivationsand 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,product sand 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 technicalexpertisein 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, andmaintainbackend 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 controlscompliance 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 strategicsolutionsand provide guidance to the team.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.
• Clo…