Lead Software Engineer - Python - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global investment bank is seeking a Lead Software Engineer based in Greater London. In this role, you will engineer scalable RESTful micro-services and APIs while guiding a team of developers. The ideal candidate should have extensive Python experience and a solid understanding of microservices architecture, CI/CD practices, and automated testing. This position involves close collaboration with various business and technology teams to optimize portfolio management lifecycle operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience with Python in a commercial environment.
• Solid understanding of automated testing frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and application security.

Responsibilities

• Engineer a suite of performant, scalable RESTful micro-services and APIs.
• Act as a lead developer guiding junior developers.
• Collaborate with teams to identify and automate operational stability issues.

Skills

Commercial experience working with Python

Experience building and maintaining a microservices architecture

Knowledge of Python web frameworks (e.g. Flask, Tornado, Bottle)

Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing

Solid understanding of CI/CD

Experience collaborating with frontend teams

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity to join an agile development team working on a top-tier Delta One platform that empowers the front office to create, manage, and report on equities-based baskets. You will collaborate with other skilled engineers worldwide and gain exposure to the entire portfolio management lifecycle.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Equities Delta One business, you serve as a Lead Engineer on our agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will partner with Product Owners, Front Office and Quantitative Research to bring their vision of the next set of critical business functions into reality.

Job responsibilities

• Engineer a suite of performant, scalable and reusable RESTful micro-services and APIs using Python. Championing quality and owning the non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with the team to form the sprints that will get us to the MVP and then finally the target state.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices through mentoring.
• Collaborate with other backend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of microservices components to facilitate faster development.
• Collaborate with a number of teams including Trading, Sales, Quantitative Research, as well as other technology teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Commercial experience working with Python
• Experience building and maintaining a microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of the Python web frameworks (e.g. Flask, Tornado, Bottle) and OO databases (e.g. mongo-db).
• Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. PyUnit) within a commercial setting
• Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience collaborating with frontend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to python libraries such as pandas, scipy and numpy
• Exposure to python concurrency through python multiprocessing would be advantageous.
• Exposure to grid computing concepts would be advantageous.
• Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology