Lead Software Engineer - Python / Web developer
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Prime Finance Collateral Basket team, you will work hand in hand daily with JPM traders and Middle Office. You will help drive the expansion in North America of our a best-in-class platform used to manage the bank’s equity inventory, our client funds lifecycle, their associated reporting and the automation of the firm booking process.
Job responsibilities:
- Work directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems.
- Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
- Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.
- Manage ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment and support.
- Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems.
- Ensure technological solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable.
- Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.
- Provide 3rd Level production support on a rotational basis – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.
- Mentor junior developers and conduct code and design reviews.
- Train AI agents to automate support, documentation, and streamline development lifecycle.
- Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Software Engineeringconcepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Excellent understanding of Python concepts, includingobject-oriented design, multi-threading, parallel processing.
- Excellent understanding of UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/React, AngularJS, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.Experience of working in financial services knows business, understands and worked in finance and asset management
- Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience, and a range of different backgrounds and skill sets.
- Experience with Python Web Framework such as Tornado or Bottle
- Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities.
- Experience with Databases – relational as well as No-SQL - Sybase / Oracle / Mongo DBExperience working in Agile organization as a team member/Scrum Master/ Product Owner
- Experience supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues.
- Experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.
- Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working on Deal lifecycle, pricing and risk systems such on SecDb, Quartz, Athena, Beacon
- Understanding of equity market and equity derivative products.
- Experience in user interface and integration test automation
- Exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS.Cloud or container-orchestration certification – AWS, Kubernetes, etc.