Senior Lead Software Engineer - C++ - Athena Hydra

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join J.P. Morgan as a Senior Lead Software Engineer within Athena Core Hydra, where you will enhance and deliver leading technology products. Your role will involve providing technical guidance, developing high-quality code, and influencing product design while contributing to a diverse and inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in Advanced C++ & Java.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• In-depth knowledge in technical disciplines like cloud and AI.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance and direction to support business teams.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code.
• Drives decisions influencing product design and functionality.

Skills

Advanced C++

Java programming

Advanced Python

System design

Cloud native experience

SDLC automation

Artificial intelligence

Machine learning

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Athena Core Hydra (CIB), 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Advanced C++ & Java programming concepts and proficient applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability in distributed systems
• Advanced Python programming
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., SDLC automation, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning )
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field