Sr Lead Software Engineer - Python/Django

J.P. MORGAN; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Bournemouth is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to enhance and deliver technology products. You will be responsible for technical guidance and ensuring the development of secure, high-quality code. Ideal candidates will have substantial experience in programming languages, cloud technologies, and software development. This role emphasizes leadership and a collaborative approach within an agile team environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience in software design and application development.
• Advanced in one or more programming languages.
• Practical cloud native experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to support business and technical teams.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code.
• Drive decisions affecting product design and technical operations.
• Contribute to engineering community best practices.

Skills

System design

Application development

Problem-solving

Leadership

Cloud technologies

Programming languages

Education

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics or related field

Tools

Python

Django

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

CockroachDB

Job description

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 the Infrastructure Platforms, you are an essential member of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market‑leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your role involves promoting significant business impact through your skills and contributions, utilizing deep technical expertise and problem‑solving methodologies to address a wide range of challenges across various 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience building distributed, high‑availability systems in cloud environments, including Kubernetes and CockroachDB provisioning and management.
• Demonstrated leadership in technology teams and driving process improvements, with deep expertise in distributed architectures.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, Django, Celery, RabbitMQ, and modern backend technologies, with strong integration skills across upstream and downstream systems.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first‑class business in a first‑class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long‑term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.