Lead Software Engineer - Python - Vice President

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London, Greater London, England
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Financial Services
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The Role

Job Description
We have an exciting opportunity to join an agile development team working on a top-tier Delta One platform that empowers the front office to create, manage, and report on equities-based baskets. You will collaborate with other skilled engineers worldwide and gain exposure to the entire portfolio management lifecycle.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Equities Delta One business, you serve as a Lead Engineer on our agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will partner with Product Owners, Front Office and Quantitative Research to bring their vision of the next set of critical business functions into reality.
Job responsibilities

  • Engineer a suite of performant, scalable and reusable RESTful micro-services and APIs using Python. Championing quality and owning the non-functional requirements.
  • Collaborate with the team to form the sprints that will get us to the MVP and then finally the target state.
  • Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
  • 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 through mentoring.
  • Collaborate with other backend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of microservices components to facilitate faster development.
  • Collaborate with a number of teams including Trading, Sales, Quantitative Research, as well as other technology teams.


Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Commercial experience working with Python
  • 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
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security
  • 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 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. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

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Year Founded: 1799

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.

Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.

Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.

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