Software Engineer III – Backend Engineer – Chase UK

Company: JP Morgan Chase
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will help deliver a seamless digital banking experience as part of Chase UK within the International Consumer Bank. You will join a diverse, distributed team and contribute to cloud-native microservices that power customer journeys. You’ll shape scalable, secure software, participate in end-to-end lifecycle support, and help ensure high availability and performance. This is an opportunity to impact how customers access and interact with financial services at scale, in a fast-growing, transformation-focused environment.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to end-to-end cloud-native microservices solutions using modern technologies
  • Apply domain modeling to create strong, business-oriented products
  • Structure code for clarity, testability, and evolvability
  • Design scalable architectures to avoid single points of failure
  • Develop secure code to protect customers and the business
  • Investigate and fix issues promptly to prevent recurrence
  • Ensure zero-downtime releases and optimized data access
  • Monitor performance and reliability, guiding efficient problem-solving
  • Keep technologies and patterns up to date across the stack
  • Support products through their lifecycle, including production and incident management

Key requirements

  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and applied experience
  • Recent hands-on experience as a back-end software engineer
  • Experience coding in a recent version of Java
  • Experience in designing and implementing tests (unit, component, integration, end-to-end, performance)
  • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
  • Understanding of cloud technologies, distributed systems, RESTful APIs and web technologies
  • Familiarity with relational data stores
  • clear communication
  • proactive problem-solving
  • collaboration in a cross-functional team
  • Java back-end development
  • cloud technologies (AWS)
  • distributed systems

Posted: September 14th, 2026