Senior Lead Software Engineer : API Management Platform, DevOps

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, specifically in the Payments Technology division, your role will be pivotal in an agile team. You will be responsible for the enhancement, creation, and delivery of high-quality technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a significant technical contributor, your tasks will include developing essential technology solutions across multiple technical domains within various business functions, all to support the firm's business goals.

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 external vendors, startups, 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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Expand the capabilities and adoption of the modern API gateway for external and internal Payments Web APIs
• Pay high attention to non-functional requirements to ensure stability, security and scalability of the API infrastructure
• Actively participates in highly energy global agile team

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on API Management Platform concepts and proficient advanced 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.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience
• Professional experience in API management technology e.g APIGEE, Kong, Mulesoft
• Strong understand of OpenAPI Specification (OAS) for RESTful APIs

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS (ECS, EKS, MKS)
• Kong API Gateway
• Experience with Performance and Soak Testing
• Golang programming language
• Lua programming language