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

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 ...