
Lead Software Engineer - Java / Python - Vice President
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Lead Software Engineer on the Markets Technology team responsible for designing, building, and delivering secure, scalable market-facing applications. Acts as a core technical contributor, developing production-quality Java/Python code, driving system design, testing, and operational stability. Leads technical evaluations with vendors and internal teams, champions automation/CI-CD practices, and promotes communities of practice across software engineering. Requires hands-on cloud-native experience and building high-volume data processing solutions with SQL and NoSQL databases.
Location: LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Markets 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 10+ years applied software engineering experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Expertise in Java/Python, RDMS, SQL
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
- Hands-on experience in designing and building enterprise-scale, high-volume data processing applications using SQL and NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
- Exposure to cloud technologies




