Lead Software Engineer

3 weeks ago

Athens, Greece JPMorgan Chase & Co Full time
JOB DESCRIPTION

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities 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 leading critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives. The Equities technology Team has 1000's of engineers working across a number of challenging business problems. These range from building low latency execution, algorithmic trading, solving complex functions, using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing to gain insight and execute trades. 

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
  • Own the delivery of value-add activities leading a scrum team (3-5 people) and be an active member governing the overall platform.
  • Engineer a suite of performant, scalable and reusable RESTful micro-services and APIs using Python. Championing quality and owning the non-functional requirements. 
  • Have the freedom to act like an owner and ensure the health of the platform is maintained through initiatives such as a journey from private to public cloud (AWS) and our devops operating model.
  • Collaborate with the team to form the sprints that will get us to the MVP and then finally the target state.
  • Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
  • Collaborate with other backend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of microservices components to facilitate faster development. 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in Python programming language (5y+)
  • 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, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
  • Experience building and maintaining a microservices architecture.
  • Knowledge of the Python web frameworks (e.g. Flask, Tornado, Bottle) and OO databases (e.g. mongo-db)
  • Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. PyUnit) within a commercial setting
  • Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
  • Experience collaborating with frontend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Exposure to python libraries such as pandas, scipy and numpy
  • Exposure to python concurrency through python multiprocessing would be advantageous.
  • Exposure to grid computing concepts would be advantageous.
  • Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology

About the Innovation Lab in Athens

We recently announced plans for a new office in Athens, Greece, to support our organic growth in the country and to bolster the innovation efforts of our Payments and Markets business globally.

J.P. Morgan first opened its doors in Greece more than five decades ago, and today we provide products and services from across our Investment Banking, Payments and Asset & Wealth Management businesses to a number of local and multinational Greek clients.

The new office will house a new Innovation Lab, which will provide research and development to the J.P. Morgan Payments and Markets business. 

Greek male nationals must have completed or have no obligatory military service obligations

ABOUT US

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our Corporate & Investment Bank relies on innovators like you to build and maintain the technology that helps us safely service the world’s important corporations, governments and institutions. You'll develop solutions that help the bank provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk, and extend liquidity in markets spanning over 100 countries around the world.

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