Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python / Java

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in the Quantitative Execution Strategies tech group. You will be integral to an agile team building trusted market-leading technology in a secure, scalable way.

You’ll contribute as a core technical developer across multiple areas, collaborating with front office teams to support the QES platform. The role emphasizes designing, building, and delivering secure production code with a focus on operational stability and performance, using

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, app development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced Python programming language.
• Excellent analytical skills and problem solving.
• Experience leading an agile delivery team with scrum, sprint planning, and stakeholder reporting.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and designs, thinking beyond routine approaches to solve problems.
• Develops secure, high-quality production code and reviews code written by others.
• Implements automation to improve operational stability and reduce recurring issues.
• Leads communities of practice to drive adoption of new technologies.
• Acts as a front office developer within the QES team and collaborates with front office desks.
• Collaborates closely with front office teams to support the QES platform.
• Develops platform and visualization components required by traders.

Skills

Python

Analytical skills

Agile leadership

Problem solving

Software engineering fundamentals

Java

TypeScript

React

Tools

Java

Python

TypeScript

React

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 Quantitative Execution Strategies 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:

The QES (Quantitative Execution Strategies) infrastructure supports the execution of cross-markets intraday trading strategies. It is a large growth area for JP Morgan’s markets franchise, and will see significant additional investment over the next year to further our excellence in the business. The team's responsibility includes the design, build and support of the platform. The work requires close collaboration with our front office partners from sales, trading and quantitative research.

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
• Acts as a front office developer within the QES technology team.
• Collaborates closely with front office teams (trading, structuring) to support the QES platform.
• Develops platform and visualization components required by the desk.
• Utilizes principal technologies such as Java, Python and TypeScript (React) within the team.

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 Java, Python, Typescript, React