Senior Lead Software Engineer - Precious Metals / Front Office / Athena

Testing Site - JPMC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase seeks a Senior Lead Software Engineer - Precious Metals / Front Office / Athena in New York to join the Commodities Tech team. You will help enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable way within an agile environment.

You will collaborate with Trading, Quant Research, Sales, and Middle Office; lead the NYC software engineering team; provide technical guidance; develop secure production code; influence design and operations; and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience leading technologists
• Degree in CS/IS/Math or equivalent
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, development, testing, and operations
• Experience in large-scale OO or functional languages (Python, Java)
• Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes
• Enthusiasm to learn and grow
• Previous software engineering team management experience

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Trading, Quantitative Research, Sales and Middle Office to deliver quality code
• Lead the NYC-based software engineering team and align with global priorities
• Provide technical guidance and direction to teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review others' code
• Influence product design, application functionality, and operations
• Foster cross-functional collaboration with Core Technology and Business teams
• Promote firmwide SDLC frameworks, tools and practices
• Inspire peers and stakeholders to adopt leading-edge technologies
• Contribute to team culture of diversity and inclusion

Skills

Technical leadership

End-to-end design

Python/Java

Cloud / scalable systems

Team management

Collaboration

Education

BS in Computer Science / Information Systems / Math

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 - Precious Metals / Front Office / Athena at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Precious Metals and Agriculture - Commodities Tech team, you will be 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

• Works closely with Trading, Quantitative Research, Sales and Middle Office teams to deliver quality code in a fast paced environment
• Acts as the regional lead for the Precious Metals and Agricultural products team supporting the regional needs of the precious metals business while remaining aligned with the global team and global priorities.
• Acts as the direct manager for the NYC based software engineering team, helping drive business results through the team
• 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
• Promotes and drives cross-functional collaboration with Core Technology teams and Business teams to deliver innovative, scalable solutions
• 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. In addition, 2+ years of experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Math or equivalent training and relevant experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in performant, large-scale system development in an object-oriented or functional language such as Python, Java, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, object-oriented programming, full stack development - end to end, quantitative finance, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Must have a strong understanding of end-to-end business processes
• Enthusiastic to keep learning and growing, in technical aptitude and business understanding
• Previous software engineering team management experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Software development experience in commodities, finance, or investment banking preferred, or willingness to rapidly learn the business domain
• Willingness to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language
• Ability to collaborate with other technology teams to deliver end to end solutions to the business in a constantly changing environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills to interact confidently and credibly with business users, to understand and agree business requirements and their prioritization