Senior Backend Engineer | London, UK | JPMC

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, REST APIs, and microservices supporting the Personal Loans platform.
• Build and enhance event-driven, distributed application components, including Kafka-based integrations where applicable.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, engineering, QA, and delivery teams to clarify requirements and deliver business outcomes.
• Participate in technical design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, and engineering best-practice improvements.
• Support CI/CD, automated testing, deployment, environment configuration, and operational excellence activities.
• Troubleshoot production and non-production issues, identify root causes, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience in Java development, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting REST APIs for enterprise-scale platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native backend development.
• Experience building event-driven systems and distributed applications using Kafka.
• Solid understanding of software design patterns, automated testing frameworks, CI/CD practices, and secure coding principles.
• Experience working on complex, enterprise-scale platforms with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Familiarity with Git or equivalent version control systems, API testing tools, and configuration formats such as JSON, YAML, or XML.

Preferred Experience

• Banking or financial services domain experience, preferably within lending, loans, or credit platforms.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments with strong focus on compliance, security, and governance.
• Experience designing and supporting high-volume transactional applications.
• Exposure to observability, monitoring, logging, and production support practices.

Key Competencies

• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and technical leadership capabilities.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced agile delivery environment with changing priorities.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ownership mindset with a strong focus on quality, delivery, service reliability, and continuous improvement.