Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
Behind every investment is a person with ambitions, motivations and values. While every client is unique, they come to J.P. Morgan Personal Investing for our straightforward and transparent approach to investing, backed by 150 years of J.P. Morgan heritage. Serving over 275,000 investors in the UK, we offer award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services. Innovation is at the core of our ethos, empowering consumers to make informed investment decisions and achieve their financial goals.

Our Back-End Engineering team is central to delivering a great banking experience to our customers. We seek individuals with a curious mindset who thrive in collaborative environments and are passionate about new technology. Our teams focus on specific products and projects, including fraud prevention, investments, identity services, money transfers, debit and credit card payments, core banking, insurance products, reward campaigns, and call-centre innovations.

As a Software Engineer III, you will deliver end-to-end cloud-native microservice architecture applications using the latest technologies and industry best practices. You will design, estimate, and implement technical solutions primarily in Java/Kotlin, write comprehensive tests, and support products throughout their lifecycle including production and incident management. You will leverage enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity, while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards. Additionally, you will contribute reusable patterns and learnings to enhance team effectiveness and apply knowledge of software development lifecycle tools to maximize automation value.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, committed to building trusted, long-term partnerships and serving clients with excellence. We value diversity and inclusion and are an equal opportunity employer.

Experience
- Formal training or certification in Java programming concepts with advanced proficiency
- Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer in an agile, dynamic, customer-facing environment
- Experience with JVM languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin), preferably Java 8+
- Understanding of RESTful APIs, web technologies, and relational databases
- Experience across all stages of the software development lifecycle including requirements, design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release, and support
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools with ability to critically evaluate and refine AI-generated outputs
- Ability to work effectively in a diverse, inclusive, geographically distributed agile team
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

About You
- Technically curious, versatile, and solution-oriented
- Commercially savvy with a strong customer focus
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, secure handling, and adherence to resiliency and security standards
- Ability to guide peers on safe and effective AI tool usage within team practices

Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Familiarity with cloud technologies such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Knowledge of messaging frameworks like Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Experience automating deployment, releases, and testing in continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines