Software Engineer III - Python (Credit Trading)

J.P. MORGAN; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as an Associate Software Engineer within the Credit Technology team. This role offers the chance to enhance your software engineering skills while developing innovative solutions for the Credit Trading business. You will work in an agile environment, focusing on delivering high-quality IT solutions and collaborating with various teams to promote best practices in software development.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and development skills with a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Experience developing in Python.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust, performant pricing, trading, and risk systems.
• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with the Quant team to develop pricing and analytic components.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Degree in Mathematics

Tools

Python

Java

Job description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to advance your software engineering career.

As an Associate Software Engineer at JP Morgan within the Commercial and Investment Bank, Credit Technology team, you will focus on delivering top-tier IT solutions to the Credit Trading business, where JP Morgan is a market leader. This role offers the chance to develop your skills and grow within your career, making it an ideal software engineering opportunity.

You will be part of an agile team that enhances, designs, and delivers software components for the firm's advanced technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a new member of the software engineering team, you will execute software solutions through designing, developing, and troubleshooting multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, gaining valuable experience along the way.

Job Responsibilities

1. Develop robust, performant pricing, trading, and risk systems, including building new applications and enriching existing ones using suitable technologies. Align development efforts with the overall Credit trading strategy.
2. Participate in the entire software development lifecycle—requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and handover to operations teams.
3. Collaborate with the Quant team to develop pricing and analytic components using Python/Athena.
4. Promote best practices throughout the development process, including testing, code review, accurate status reporting, and ensuring application resilience and stability.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Strong analytical and development skills with a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and experience in real-time, resilient, high-performance, or risk and pricing/eTrading areas.
• Experience developing in Python.
• Proficiency in writing tests, object modeling, and refactoring.
• Creative, quick-thinking, pragmatic, with problem-solving skills using technology, and the ability to translate requirements into technical designs.
• Excellent organizational skills, decisive in prioritization, strong teamwork ethic, and excellent communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related engineering discipline.
• Experience building high-performance, resilient enterprise applications in a high-performance/realtime environment.
• Experience with software development processes (build, test, deploy).
• Knowledge of Java and relational databases is a plus but not required.
• Interest in learning more about the Credit Business.