Madrid, Madrid, Spain
18 days ago
Lead Software Engineer- Java- Nutmeg

Nutmeg is a J.P. Morgan company within the International Consumer Bank – Chase division offering award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to over 250,000 investors in the UK. We built the business from scratch, with constant innovation a core part of our ethos since the beginning. We aim to provide clients with the best digital investing experience, ensuring digital security and customer satisfaction – meaning you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference.  

 

As an engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Nutmeg, you will be part of a team with great ambitions. We aim to change the face of digital investments, first increasing Nutmeg’s offering in the UK with a best-in-class investment suite of mobile and web apps, followed by a multi-country expansion. 

 

Our team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about building quality software that has a big impact in a rapidly changing environment. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects.

Job Responsibilities  Work with the Product team to understand user’s needs and follow an Agile SDLC to develop and deliver product features. Our stack is Java/Springboot with a bit of Kotlin, DynamoDB, Aurora/MySQL and AWS.  Participate with the rest of the team in the process of designing how our architecture needs to evolve to meet our needs. We use ADRs as part of our decision-making process and our architecture is microservices running on Kubernetes with a heavy use of Kafka and even-driven design.  Take ownership of tasks from the estimation stage right through until the release stage and post production  Identify, troubleshoot and resolve existing or newly-identified prioritised defects   Write tests for all code you deliver and adhere to best practices/standards, ensuring high-quality code   Take ownership of, or assist others with, releases and associated processes (we try to deploy as often as possible)  Participate in code reviews, ensuring high code quality and continuous development and learning for yourself and your colleagues   Be someone who enjoys knowledge sharing, who is keen to attend and participate in some of the many skill share sessions we regularly hold in the team and across the wider Engineering department.   Propose/contribute/collaborate on Technical Initiatives - improving and evolving the existing codebase and toolset    Be keen to ensure that we focus on solving the essence of the problem rather than merely dealing with the symptoms 

 

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills  English working proficiency is a must, you will be working with the team in London  You have a product engineer mindset and a track record of delivering high quality software that adjusts to business and product needs to provide a great user experience in a timely manner  Experience with a JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin) and Springboot  Experience designing systems from scratch as well as understanding how to evolve existing architectures to achieve new goals, both serverless and managed in the cloud  Hands-on experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures with different message brokers, including Kafka  Experience with monitoring and alerting in order to maintain a production environment   Good understanding of REST and what it means to work with APIs  Experience with Git flow  Good communication skills, you can work well within a delivery team and manage interactions with other parts of the organisation, such as Product and Operations  Curious about new ways of working and open to different approaches and ideas   Proactive and willing to help others put forward ideas 

  

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills- nice to haves 

Experience with DynamoDB and/or Aurora  Experience in the FinTech sector  Experience developing a multi-country product with multiple localizations and currencies.  Show us your Github/Stack Overflow/app portfolio! 

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