Lead Software Engineer - Financial Markets

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within Global Technology, you will lead and mentor an agile team to architect, design, and deliver trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.

In this role on the Rates Live Risk & PnL team, you will build and operate low-latency, high-availability Python applications used directly by Rates trading desks for intraday risk, PnL, and decision support in a fast-paced, front-office environment.

The Rates Live Risk & PnL team delivers real-time trading risk and profit & loss capabilities, partnering closely with traders and desk strategists.

You will own critical components across the stack-from data ingestion and calculation services to UI and operational tooling-ensuring performance, correctness, and resiliency under tight timelines and high business impact.

Job Responsibilities


* Lead the design and development of Python-based live risk and PnL applications, driving continual, iterative improvements across product teams


* Partner directly with Rates traders and stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable, low-latency technical solutions


* Drive decisions on software solutions, architecture, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with a focus on strategic direction and production excellence


* Design and implement secure, high-quality production code, with a strong focus on correctness, performance, and operational stability


* Own architecture and design artifacts for complex, real-time systems, ensuring non-functional requirements (latency, throughput, availability) are met


* Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks, and participate in production support/incident management as needed


* Collaborate with DevOps and platform partners to improve CI/CD, deployment automation, and environment reliability


* Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and best-practice standards


* Identify systemic issues (technical debt, performance bottlenecks, data quality gaps) and drive remediation aligned to long-term platform goals


* Influence and shape a 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 coding Java or Python, including building production services and performance-sensitive applications


* Financial markets background (Rates products, risk, PnL, market data, trade lifecycle)


* Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability with a track record of leading complex technical initiatives


* Strong understanding of real-time/distributed system concepts (e.g., concurrency, messaging/streaming patterns, caching, failure modes)


* Experience delivering software in a large corporate environment wi...