Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Engineer

Are you ready to shape the next generation of mobile banking? At Chase UK, we’re building a digital bank from the ground up, combining start-up energy with the resources of a trusted global brand. You’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact, working with cutting-edge technologies and a team that values innovation and collaboration. Your skills will help us deliver secure, scalable solutions for millions of customers. Grow your career while helping us redefine what’s possible in banking.

As a Lead Software Engineer – Vice President at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will be responsible for designing and developing cloud-native services that support Chase UK. You will utilize technologies such as Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, and Kafka to promote automation and enhance the developer experience. Collaborating with skilled colleagues, you will contribute to architectural decisions and foster a culture of technical excellence. Your efforts will have a direct impact on the reliability, scalability, and security of our digital banking platform.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Being a key contact and owner of specific applications, ensuring compliance and documentation is up to date
• Maintain our AWS cloud infrastructure to ensure the bank’s 24/7 operation with a focus on stability, performance, security and compliance
• Maintain and improve stability, security and performance of connectivity for our customers, in-between AWS accounts, as well as in-between Chase and third parties
• Maintain existing deployment pipeline and migrate to strategic CI/CD tooling using a variety of programming languages (Bash/Python/Go) as necessary
• Maintain a cloud platform for application developers and provide support to improve their SDLC and developer experience
• Participate in on-call rota

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training and 5+ years applied experience developing and maintaining applications in the public cloud (we use AWS)
• Experience managing public cloud infrastructure using infra-as-code technologies (we use Terraform)
• Good knowledge of AWS Networking
• Good knowledge of Kubernetes clusters' operations (we use EKS)
• Good knowledge of programming using a modern language (Python/Go)
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that covers the full SDLC
• Excellent understanding of DevOps principles and SDLC best practices
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Familiar with software engineering security best practices in a cloud environment
• Experience developing unit, integration and end-to-end software tests