Python Associate - Emerging Market Securities Trade Management

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Software Engineer II in London to enhance and deliver technology products. The role involves working closely with trading teams to develop software solutions, ensuring high-quality code, and contributing to a collaborative team environment focused on diversity and inclusion. Candidates should have over 2 years of software engineering experience and familiarity with agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Software Engineering.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• Ability to code in at least one modern programming language.

Responsibilities

• Work with Trading and Middle Office to deliver solutions.
• Develop and troubleshoot secure code.
• Analyze large data sets to identify problems.

Skills

Software Engineering experience

System design

Application development

Debugging

Agile methodologies

Job description

Advance your career as a Software Engineer II, enhancing and delivering state-of-the-art technology products at JPMorgan Chase.

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you. As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Emerging Market Securities Trade Management business, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Job Responsibilities

• Closely work with Trading, Middle Office, Controllers, Quantitative Researchers in delivering critical business solutions.
• Execute standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Write secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance.
• Design, develop, code, and troubleshoot with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications.
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation.
• Apply technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity.
• Gather, analyze, and draw conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development.
• Learn and apply system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems.
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• 2 years+ experience in Software Engineering.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages.
• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle.
• Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with trading technologies and workflows.
• Exposure to cloud technologies.