Lead Software Engineer - Python, Distributed Computing
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 16 hours ago
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- Not specified USD
- City
- Houston
- Country
- United States
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Lead Software Engineer - Python, Distributed Computing at JPMorgan Chase in Houston, TX. You will design and deliver secure, high-quality production code within an agile team, focusing on low-latency trading systems and scalable architectures. Responsibilities include evaluating architectures, automating testing and remediation, building telemetry and visualization tools, and collaborating with line-of-business technology partners. The role requires 8+ years of industry experience and strong Python development skills in real-time, high-performance environments.
Location: Houston, TX, United States
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.
- 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 priority management, strong teamwork ethic, excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities & skills:
- The ideal candidate will likely be qualified to degree level in Computer Science, Math or related engineering discipline.
- Strong technology generalist – experience building highly performant and resilient enterprise applications used within a high performance/real-time environment.
- Experience working in a team with a strong software development process (build, test, deploy etc.).
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- A desire to learn more about the Financial products.
