Lead Software Engineer - Python, Typescript, React, C#, SQL | London, UK

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Lead Software Engineer - Python, Typescript, React, C#, SQL

JPMorgan Chase & Co. London, United Kingdom

Job Description

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 Mansart Fund Management Tech, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for building critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Team Overview:

You will be a front office lead developer embedded within a rapidly growing fund management business within JP Morgan. You will work within a tight knit team of portfolio managers, structurers, operations and technologists to help scale this business. You will be able to proactively drive projects: working with our business users to understand their needs; coordinating dependencies with other technology teams; getting hands-on to enhance the software that we directly manage. The platform we support offers fund customisation and infrastructure services to clients in a wide range of regulated structures. This team's responsibility includes the design, build and support of the platform.

Job Responsibilities:

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Front office lead developer in the Mansart technology team.
• Own and deliver specific projects within the global program of work
• Develop the platform, automation and visualization components required by the Mansart business.
• The principal technologies used by the team are Python, TypeScript (React), C# and SQL.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in Python programming language
• Excellent analytical skills (i.e. problem solving)
• Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Experience of working in a front office environment within financial services
• Knowledge of Python, Typescript, React, C#, SQL

About Us

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. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.