Lead Software Engineer - Front Office developer, Python/ Equity Prime Finance
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Prime Finance Collateral Basket team, you will work hand in hand daily with JPM traders and Middle Office. You will help drive the expansion in North America of our a best-in-class platform used to manage the bank’s equity inventory, our client funds lifecycle, their associated reporting and the automation of the firm booking process.
Job responsibilities
Work directly with business, quant and technology teams to articulate new technology requirements and solve business problems.
Collaborate with other members of a globally distributed team to brainstorm new ideas / solutions and provide mentoring and technical expertise to the team.
Develop specific enhancements and/or build new solutions to fulfill business objectives related to new business requirements.
Manage ownership of feature deliveries through the full SDLC process, including requirements gathering, development, unit and integration testing, packaging, deployment and support.
Work closely with other technology teams to ensure that required changes are made in other systems.
Ensure technological solutions meet business and client requirements, that they are robust and supportable.
Document release procedures and support notes for deliverables to enable proper support by our production management groups.
Provide 3rd Level production support on a rotational basis – analyze issues observed in production, provide detailed analysis and recommendations to production management groups, and identify opportunities to improve the production system.
Mentor junior developers and conduct code and design reviews.
Train AI agents to automate support, documentation, and streamline development lifecycle.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Excellent understanding of Python concepts, including object-oriented design, multi-threading, parallel processing.
Excellent understanding of UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/React, AngularJS, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.
Experience of working in financial services knows business, understands and worked in finance and asset management
Experience in technical leadership roles, working with teams of developers with varying levels of experience, and a range of different backgrounds and skill sets.
Experience with Python Web Framework such as Tornado or Bottle
Experience designing and implementing scalable microservice architectures with high resiliency capabilities.
Experience with Databases – relational as well as No-SQL - Sybase / Oracle / Mongo DB
Experience working in Agile organization as a team member/Scrum Master/ Product Owner
Experience supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues.
Experience with full development lifecycle and tools, including Git/Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Experience working on Deal lifecycle, pricing and risk systems such on SecDb, Quartz, Athena, Beacon
Understanding of equity market and equity derivative products.
Experience in user interface and integration test automation
Exposure to cloud compute platforms, including AWS. Cloud or container-orchestration certification – AWS, Kubernetes, etc.