Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python/AWS/API/Django
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 14 hours ago
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- City
- Wilmington
- Country
- United States
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Senior software engineer on an agile team responsible for designing, developing, and supporting high-quality, secure production code for a trade execution platform. Hands-on role focused on Python/Django, APIs, AWS and data ecosystem technologies, including automation, CI/CD, and operational stability. Collaborates with Middle and Front Office business users, leads technical evaluations with vendors, and drives communities of practice to adopt modern architectures and tooling.
Location: Wilmington, DE, United States
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 - Python/AWS/API/Django at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Sector, 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. 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
- 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
- Manages responsibility for supporting the day-to-day operations of the trade execution platform, collaborating with Middle Office and Front Office business users.
- 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
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language and proficient in coding in one or more languages and frameworks such as Python, Pandas, Django, Java, Spring, SQL, MQ/Kafka
- Experience with AWS & DataBricks ecosystem technology stacks as EMR, redshift, Dynamo DB, Athena, S3, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Spark etc.
- Experience with SQL and No-Sql Databases such as Oracle, MS Sql, PostgreSQL, Graph DB, Dynamo DB etc.
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- 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.)
- Practical cloud native experience and hands on experience in Cloud platforms like Kubernetes / Cloud Foundry
- Project execution experience with Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with non-technical colleagues to understand and address business needs
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Exposure to cloud technologies
- Familiarity with investment banking products - fixed income, derivatives
- Prior experience supporting trade execution platforms
