Python Full stack Lead Software Engineer

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in New Jersey seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer to guide global teams on high-impact initiatives within Equities, from design to deployment. You will drive strategic improvements across platforms to enhance performance, security, and scalability.

The role emphasizes architectural leadership, engineering best practices, and collaboration with stakeholders in Trading, Operations, and more. Strong technical breadth in Python/React, AWS, and Agile is required.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Python and React.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, application resiliency, and system integration.
• Education to degree level, ideally in a computer science, mathematical or engineering discipline or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Spearhead the delivery of greenfield initiative to transform the storage and access of loan related legal documentation, using AI to uplift users analysis capabilities.
• Work with key stakeholders in Trading, QR, Operations and others globally to ensure the loan management platforms deliver a world class experience.
• Able to directly contribute to the ongoing efforts to re-engineer & re-architect existing platforms to be performant, highly available, stable, efficient, and scalable.
• Lead and contribute to the identification and implementation of solutions for recurring issues, with the aim of improving overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Lead design and architecture discussions to leverage new and emerging technologies, to solve complex business deliveries.
• Offer leadership, support, and clear direction to team members globally to enhance the overall team's performance.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the SoftwareDevelopment Life Cycle
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Skills

Python

React

Typescript

AWS

SDLC

Agile

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Athena

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 Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment bank Equities team, 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
• Spearhead the delivery of greenfield initiative to transform the storage and access of loan related legal documentation, using AI to uplift users analysis capabilities.
• Work with key stakeholders in Trading, QR, Operations and others globally to ensure the loan management platforms, both internally and client facing, deliver a world class experience.
• Able to directly contribute to the ongoing efforts to re-engineer & re-architect existing platforms to make them performant, highly available, stable, efficient, and scalable.
• Lead and contribute to the identification and implementation of solutions for recurring issues, with the aim of improving overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Lead design and architecture discussions to leverage new and emerging technologies, to solve complex business deliveries.
• Offer leadership, support, and clear direction to team members globally to enhance the overall team's performance.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the SoftwareDevelopment Life Cycle
• 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
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Python and React
• Hands-on 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.
• Good overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts, and advanced proficiency.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, application resiliency, and system integration.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight.
• Education to degree level, ideally in a computer science, mathematical or engineering discipline or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experienced with Typescript.
• Familiarity with cloud-based technologies, preferably AWS.
• Experience with order management and trading user interfaces, with knowledge of Athena.
• Understanding of financial products, specifically equity based loans.