
Python Full stack Lead Software Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted a month ago
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- City
- Jersey City
- Country
- United States
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Senior full-stack engineer leading the design and delivery of market-leading Equities technology products, with a focus on Python-based systems. You will spearhead a greenfield initiative to transform storage and access of loan-related legal documentation using AI, re-architect platforms for performance and scalability, and collaborate with Trading, QR, and Operations stakeholders globally. The role includes hands-on development of secure production code, driving CI/CD and operational stability, and mentoring engineers across distributed teams.
Location: Jersey City, NJ, United States
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Commercial and Investment bank Equities 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
- Spearheads the delivery of greenfield initiative to transform the storage and access of loan related legal documentation, using AI to uplift users analysis capabilities.
- Works with key stakeholders in Trading, QR, Operations and others globally to ensure the loan management platforms, both internally and client facing, deliver a world class experience.
- Contributes directly to the ongoing efforts to re-engineer & re-architect existing platforms to make them performant, highly available, stable, efficient, and scalable.
- Leads and contributes to the identification and implementation of solutions for recurring issues, with the aim of improving overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
- Leads design and architecture discussions to leverage new and emerging technologies, to solve complex business deliveries.
- Offers leadership, support, and clear direction to team members globally to enhance the overall team's performance.
- 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 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
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) - Advanced proficiency in Python
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with Python.
- 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 (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experienced with React, Typescript.
- Familiarity with cloud-based technologies, preferably AWS.
- Experience with order management and trading user interfaces, with knowledge of Athena.
- Understanding of financial products, specifically equity based loans.




