Lead Software Engineer - Java

Nutmeg Saving and Investment Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to enhance and deliver market-leading technology products. The successful candidate will execute creative software solutions, develop high-quality production code, and lead evaluation sessions with vendors. Required skills include proficiency in Core Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, and experience with cloud deployment. If you're eager to push the limits of what's possible in a dynamic environment, this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on practical experience delivering system design and application development.
• Strong proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message brokers.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Develops secure high-quality production code.
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors and teams.

Skills

Core Java

J2EE

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

RESTful microservices

Kafka

SQL Databases

No-SQL Databases

Education

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

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 JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment Banking Emerging Markets Team, 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 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 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
• 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.)
• Strong proficiency in Core Java, J2EE, and Spring Boot with strong coding skills.
• Strong proficiency using Spring framework and understanding of inversion of control and dependency injection.
• Hands‑on experience designing and implementing event‑driven architectures with different message brokers, including Kafka.
• Experience creating RESTful microservices and handling asynchronous data.
• Experience integrating with both SQL Databases (Oracle) and No‑SQL Databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern backend technologies including Java 21+.
• Familiarity with Domain Driven Design as an approach to begin implementing system designs.
• Proficiency with AI code assistants for rapid prototyping and end delivery of Backend functionality.
• Experience with deploying Backend services to cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).