Senior Lead Software Engineer- COMMODITIES, Python

J.P. Morgan; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, where you'll be part of an agile team delivering cutting-edge technology products. In this role, you will leverage your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to tackle diverse challenges and drive significant business impact. Your contributions will enhance trading operations and improve user experiences across global commodities markets.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years experience.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, and operational stability.
• Ability to work independently and tackle design problems with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and support to teams and stakeholders.
• Lead engineers to develop innovative engineering solutions.
• Create secure, high-quality production code and improve user experience.

Skills

Python

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Agile Development

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Tools

Python

pandas

NumPy

SciPy

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 Commercial & Investment Bank in Markets Commodities Technology, 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.

The Global Commodities business spans over the globe (North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific) and does business in Oil, Gas, Power, Emissions, & Metals (both base and precious) in both Exchange Traded markets as well as Over the Counter markets. The desks trade both financially settled as well as physically settled products.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Has Problem solving skills – given a problem statement find out and evaluate alternatives, plan, and build quick POC, present it to broader team and stakeholders.
• Lead a group of engineers to provide innovative engineering design and solution to various challenging problems.
• 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.
• Participate and develop to create an intuitive user experience at the front end. 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.
• Improves experience for trading, operations developing intuitive user interfaces and performant back ends. Work with QR (Quantitative Research) group as well as other technical partners in a collaborative environment.
• Partner with many groups both upstream and downstream with varied priorities. Communication is the key here.
• Drives and executes within the strategy of macro technology, of which commodities is one section (aligning with rates and FX technology peers)
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, 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) - Strong Python experience. Willingness to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language.
• Experience in designing and developing workflow based user applications (full stack)
• Prior track record of delivery within risk management in financial services
• Ability to collaborate with and influence other technology teams to deliver end to end solutions to the business in a constantly changing environment.
• Knowledgeable in agile development
• 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
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Software development experience in Commodities, Finance, or Investment banking preferred, or willingness to learn the business domain
• Knowledge of Athena, Quartz, SecDb or equivalent platforms preferred
• Concept of Risk, Markets – any knowledge in commodities markets is a plus.
• Expertise in python, pandas, NumPy, SciPy is a plus.