Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python

Credit Technology is dedicated to providing top-tier IT solutions to the Credit Trading sector, where JP Morgan stands as a market leader. If you're eager to acquire the skills and experience necessary to advance in your role and elevate your career, we have an ideal software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank's Credit Technology team, you'll be part of an agile team focused on enhancing, designing, and delivering the software components of the firm’s cutting-edge technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a developing member of the software engineering team, you'll implement software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of various components within a technical product, application, or system, all while gaining the skills and experience needed to progress in your role.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop robust and high-performance pricing, trading, and risk systems, including creating new applications and enhancing existing ones using the most appropriate technology choices. Ensure alignment with the overall Credit trading strategy.
• Engage in the entire software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and transition to operational teams.
• Collaborate closely with the Quant team to develop pricing and analytic components using Python
• Strengthen the team by exemplifying best practices throughout the software development lifecycle, including testing, code review, accurate status reporting, and a focus on application resilience and "silent running."

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong analytical development skills, a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, and experience in real-time, resilient, high-performance, risk and pricing, or eTrading areas.
• Experience in Python development.
• Experience in writing tests, object modeling, and refactoring.
• Creative, quick-thinking, and pragmatic, with a talent for solving problems with technology and the ability to swiftly translate requirements into effective technical design and implementation.
• Demonstrated organizational skills, decisive priority management, strong teamwork ethic, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Practical cloud native experience