Backend Engineer

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. has expanded its consumer business and we have launched a new digital retail bank in the UK. We are offering consumers a completely new banking experience. Under the Chase brand, the bank provides products and features tailored to meet the needs of customers in the UK, made available via an innovative mobile app.

Our team is at the heart of building this new venture, focused on developing offerings that put the customer at the center. We have created a new organization and we are looking for solution-oriented, commercially minded, customer-focused engineers, used to working in a true agile environment who want to be a part of something new, built from the ground up as a green-field with zero legacy initiative within a global, diverse and inclusive team.

Culture is as important to us and we are looking for intellectually curious, new technology passionate individuals who would like to expand their skills whilst working on a new exciting venture for the firm. Your work will have a direct impact to our customers as our business expands around the world.

This is a hands-on role for a back-end engineer who wants to be part of flat-structure organization. The responsibilities are to deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions in the form of cloud-native microservices architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices.

Your technical skills should include:

Qualifications in computer science or STEM related field (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) or foreign equivalent

Recent hands-on professional experience as a back-end software engineer in an agile, dynamic and customer facing environment

Recent experience with using a JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin, preferably Java 8+)

Understanding of RESTful APIs and web technologies

Understanding of relational databases

Desired - understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture

Desired - understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)

Desired - understanding of dependency injection frameworks (Spring / Spring Boot, etc.)

Desired - understanding of security frameworks / standards

Desired - understanding of data streaming and messaging frameworks (Kafka, Spark, etc.)

Desired - understanding of distributed tracing and monitoring (Zipkin, OpenTracing, Prometheus, ELK stack, Micrometer metrics, etc.)

Desired - understanding of containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, etc.)

Experience in all the stages of software development lifecycle (requirements, design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and support)

Desired - experience in automating deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines

A solid approach to writing unit level tests using mocking frameworks, as well as automating component, integration

Your soft skills should include:

Ability to work in a collaborative environment and coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.

Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment within a geographically distributed team

Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs

Ability to work within a diverse and inclusive team

Technically curious, versatile and solution oriented

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

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About us

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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

About the Team

Our Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You'll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.