Python Software Engineer II

J.P. Morgan; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a Python Software Engineer II to join their Wholesale Credit Risk Technology team in Glasgow. This role involves designing, developing, and delivering software solutions while working in an agile environment. The successful candidate will gain hands-on experience and contribute to the development of secure and stable technology products. Candidates should have strong Python skills and a background in system design and application development.

Qualifications

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, and testing.
• Experience in developing and maintaining code in a corporate environment.
• Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle and agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Writes secure and high-quality code using Python.
• Gathers and analyzes data to aid decision-making.

Skills

Python

System design

Application development

Technical troubleshooting

Agile methodologies

Education

Formal training or certification on Python software engineering

Job description

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 Python Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Wholesale Credit Risk Technology team, 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

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development
• Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Python software engineering concepts and applied experience
• 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, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Preferred basic knowledge of Java (or other Object Oriented Programming)
• Exposure to cloud technologies. Nice to have, Public Cloud Certification