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 JPMorgan Chase, within Corporate Technology Treasury & Chief Investment Office, you will play a pivotal role in an Agile feature team. Your focus will be on designing, enhancing, constructing, and delivering market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. Your work will have a significant business impact as you apply your deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills to address a wide range of challenges across multiple technologies and applications.

This new role requires a driven individual who thrives in a fast-paced setting, takes ownership of tasks, and is comfortable working as part of a team on solutions for the trading desk.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, enhance, and support the Trade Execution Platform, which is critical to trading and other business activities.
• Provide technical guidance and direction, leading, coaching, and mentoring to support the business and its technical teams.
• Create secure, high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Drive decisions that influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations, adhering to best practices and the architectural roadmap
• Serve as a subject matter expert in Python & Java.
• Proactively identify improvements in systems and processes to reduce risk and improve performance.
• Ensure clear communication with colleagues to align on technical solutions and business needs.
• Execute 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.
• Develop secure high-quality production code, and review and debug code written by others.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Contribute to the wider team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with applied advanced experience.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Advanced proficiency in the Python & Java programming languages and frameworks.
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes, with deep expertise in one or more technical disciplines.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot design and functionality issues with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to problem-solve in real-time and handle technical issues with a sense of urgency.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with non-technical colleagues to understand and address business needs.
• Solid technology background with experience in object-oriented programming and a commitment to writing clean, efficient, and scalable code.
• Good interpersonal skills and able to work effectively in a global team.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods include advanced understanding of Agile methodologies.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Financial Industry experience and familiarity with investment banking products – e.g. fixed income, derivatives.
• Project execution experience with strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with non-technical colleagues to understand and address business needs.
• Exposure to cloud technologies using AWS.
• Familiarity with cloud native software design.
• Familiarity with container orchestration (K8s).