Senior Lead Software Engineer -Python, Investment Banking

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total rewards

On-site health and wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Jersey City is seeking a Sr Lead Software Engineer- Python / Distributed Computing to join the Markets Technology team within CEM Swaps. You will guide an agile team to design and deliver secure, scalable market technology products using Python and distributed systems.

You will contribute to Athena, a Python-based market risk, pricing and trade management platform, and help translate complex requirements into robust technical designs while promoting SDLC best practices.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Strong analytical development skills with CS fundamentals; real-time, high performance and risk/ pricing domains.
• Provides technical guidance to the business and its teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Distributed systems experience and data-intensive applications.
• Experience with event-driven systems and architecture design.
• Writes secure, high-quality production code and conducts reviews.
• Drives decisions shaping design, functionality, and operations.
• Advocates SDLC frameworks, tools and practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver market-leading technology products in a secure, scalable way.
• Contribute to Athena, a Python-based market risk, pricing and trade management platform.
• Collaborate in an agile team to support multiple business functions.
• Mentor engineers on distributed systems and architecture.

Skills

Analytical development skills

Distributed systems

Real-time high performance

Event-driven architecture

Secure production code

CI/CD & security

Technical guidance to teams

Technical design translation

Leadership in SDLC

Problem solving with technology

Tools

SecDB

Athena

Quartz platform

GraphQL

Mono-repo codebase management

Job description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Sr Lead Software Engineer- Python / Distributed Computing at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank- Markets Technology within CEM Swaps Team, you'll serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

This team works on development of Athena, a Python based Market Risk, pricing, and trade management platform. Athena is designed to enable rapid innovation on the desk by offering Technologists, Quantitative Analysts and Risk Managers a consistent, cross-asset portfolio of models, frameworks and tools to use in building financial applications.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong analytical development skills, solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and experience in real-time, resilient, high performance and/or risk and pricing and/or eTrading areas
• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Demonstrated experience working on distributed systems and with distributed computing on data intensive applications
• Experience working on event driven systems, including strong architecture design
• 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
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the SoftwareDevelopment Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Creative, quick-thinking, pragmatic, with an aptitude for solving problems with technology and an ability to quickly translate requirements into a sound technical design and implementation
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Strong Python
• Experience with SecDB / Athena / Quartz platform.
• Experience working in large mono-repo codebases, where code often rolls out to production within minutes
• Familiarity with Investment Banking, FinTech or Financial Markets
• Knowledge of GraphQL is good to have.

Employer Description

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.

We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.

These benefits include

• comprehensive health care coverage
• on-site health and wellness centers
• a retirement savings plan
• backup childcare
• tuition reimbursement
• mental health support
• financial coaching
• and more

Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veteran

Organization Description

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.