Lead Software Engineer - Python, Distributed Computing

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

As a Python Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Commercial & Investment Bank, Athena Trade & Risk Services, 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.

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


* Analyzing business and technical requirements, model workflows required to manage trade bookings and interaction with middleware platforms.


* Evaluate technology and framework choices to design and develop low latency booking systems that can scale to handle electronic trade volume requirements.


* Building Telemetry into components and visualization tools, analyze patterns to identify improvements for the workflows.


* Partner with line of business technology partners to facilitate adoption of strategic offerings.


* Work across the entire software development lifecycle - requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, handover to client technology teams.


* Identify and introduce automation strategies to facilitate testing across components.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:


* Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.


* Overall 8+ years of experience in the industry leading and implementing technical solutions to solve complex business problems


* 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.


* 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.


* Proven organizational skills, decisive priorit...