Lead Software Engineer - Python

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Payments Technology 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.

As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities


* 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


* 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


* Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture


* Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies


* Adds to 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


* Proficient in Python frameworks like flask or Django and experience in building, deploying and supporting restful web API integrations


* Strong object-oriented programming and concurrency skills


* Experience in test automation and python unit test frameworks like pytest, unittest etc.

or integration test frameworks


* Hands-on experience with a relational database such as PostgreSQL or any similar RDBMS solution with in depth knowledge of queries, joins and basic SQL optimization and data persistence concepts


* Hands on experience on cloud infrastructure such as AWS or Kubernetes.


* Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security


* Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


* Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods


* Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills


* In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems


* Practical cloud native experience


* Experience with Payments Technology


* Experience working in AGILE development using tools like JIRA


* Experie...