Senior Lead Software Engineer Python Django

JPMorganChase; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the UK is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join their Infrastructure Platforms team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, with advanced programming skills and the ability to tackle complex design problems. Responsibilities include developing production-quality code, providing technical guidance, and contributing to a diverse team culture. This full-time position offers the opportunity to work on leading-edge technology solutions in a highly collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 5 years of applied experience in software engineering concepts.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced knowledge of one or more programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance to support the business.
• Develop secure production code and review/debug code from others.
• Drive decisions that influence product design and functionality.

Skills

APIs

Docker

Jenkins

REST

Python

AWS

NoSQL

MySQL

JavaScript

Postgresql

Django

GIT

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

Kubernetes

CockroachDB

Job description

Description

Be an integral part of an agile team thats 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 5 years 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.

Required Experience: Senior IC

Key Skills

APIs, Docker, Jenkins, REST, Python, AWS, NoSQL, MySQL, JavaScript, Postgresql, Django, GIT

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1