Executive Director - Backend Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is expanding its consumer business by launching a new digital bank in the UK. We will offer consumers a completely new banking choice when we launch in the coming months. Using the Chase brand, the bank will provide products and features tailored to meet the needs of customers in the U.K., delivered 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 an agile environment who want to be a part of building something new from the ground up within a 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 massive impact, both on us as a company, as well as our clients and our business partners around the world.

This is a hands-on Software Engineering role within a green-field initiative. We leverage the latest technologies and the best industry practices to deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions to our clients.

Your Technical Skills Should Include
• Academic qualification in a computer science or STEM (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) related field or the foreign equivalent
• Professional experience working in an agile, dynamic and customer facing environment
• At least 8 years of recent hands-on professional experience (actively coding) working as a back-end software engineer
• Extensive experience with using a JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin, preferably Java 8+)
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Understanding of dependency injection frameworks (Spring / SpringBoot, Guice, etc.)
• Understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience in distributed systems design and architecture
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and web technologies
• Understanding of relational databases
• 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 - experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience in the all 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 creating automated quality component, integration, end-to-end and performance tests