Platform Engineer

We are not your standard bank, we are a house of innovation! We are part of the team that launched Chase as a new UK bank in 2021, and are now starting on a new initiative with even bigger ambitions. More details will be provided during the interview but for now we can enthusiastically say: It’s challenging, it’s high stakes, it’s fun!

We are not your standard bank, we are a house of innovation! We are part of the team that launched Chase as a new UK bank in 2021, and are

now starting on a new initiative with even bigger ambitions. More details will be provided during the interview but for now we can enthusiastically

say: It’s challenging, it’s high stakes, it’s fun!

Our team is at the heart of building this new venture, focused on developing products that put the customer at the centre. We have created a new

organisation with diverse professionals that come from a wide set of skills, backgrounds and experiences, including top big tech companies,

blockchain innovators and FinTech unicorns.

Team members have broad autonomy to collaborate and work in a cross-functional way and we value your opinion in every matter. Our inclusive

culture is hugely important to us and we are looking for intellectually curious, compassionate people who would like to expand their skills whilst

working on a new exciting venture for the firm. We are about bringing new products to market that solve real world problems for real life

customers, not just innovation for the sake of innovation. We are human first; we love working with each other, and we need personal

connections and in-person bonding. We find we are happier, more motivated and more productive this way. If this sounds like something that you

would like to be a part of we’d encourage you to read on and apply, even if the job description isn’t an exact match for you, we can promise to

review your application and let you know if there is anything that might be suitable in the future!

In this role, you can expect to:

Have ownership and build of SDLC for a variety of services, standard OSS tooling and libraries.

Engage and collaborate with engineers across the business to understand use-cases, and to define best-practices for use of the development

platform

Participate in a vibrant community of engineers from various backgrounds who are working to solve several complex business cases

Bring in the new and latest technologies and techniques while driving their adoption where appropriate

Some of the challenges we’re solving today include

Dynamically provisioning compute resources, providing high elasticity for service teams, and optimising for cost, while ensuring availability

and resiliency

Automating the creation of typical infrastructure dependencies of microservices, such as Kafka topics, databases, encryption keys, and object

storage

Democratising control of shared resources such as API gateways, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks, while maintaining least-privilege

access, without sacrificing productivity

This role may suit you if:

You consider yourself to be a software engineer, and are comfortable writing services, rather than just scripts and IaC.

You are comfortable dealing with cloud based infrastructure; and can speak confidentially about VPCs, security groups, access controls,

security best practices, etc.

You are able to see how seeming disconnected processes, components, and events work together to create the complete product.

You have a passion for combining multiple services, tools, components, and love ‘systems thinking’.

How we look after you:


Compensation:

Our compensation team pay close attention to the external market and endeavour to provide balanced and competitive offers, generally

consisting of a base salary and incentive compensation.

Work type:

We prefer to be co-located but we understand that people need flexibility.

Holidays:

27 days / year + bank holidays

Benefits:

Private Healthcare, Pension (matching up to 6% + 6% core contribution from JPM), Gym, Theatre and Entertainment discounts and many other

flexible options.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.