We're looking for a hands-on Python Developers ready to take their career to new heights. Join the ranks of top talent at one of the world's most influential companies.
As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Athena Rates platform team, You’ll build Python tooling, improve platform capabilities, and partner closely with developers, quantitative teams, and production stakeholders. The work is varied and high-impact: cloud migrations, operating system and library upgrades, security-driven remediation, capacity planning, hygiene, database management and rapid production problem-solving. You’ll often deliver changes end to end, and sometimes coordinate with service owners to get outcomes landed. We use AI tooling daily to accelerate analysis and implementation, and progressing toward more agentic ways of working.
Job responsibilities
- Build and maintain Python tooling, services, and automation that support Athena Rates platform delivery and operations
- Provide platform guidance to developers and quantitative teams, including how to use infrastructure safely and effectively
- Design and evolve APIs and interfaces that support application integrations
- Deliver capacity planning and performance analysis, translating findings into concrete engineering improvements
- Execute modernization work across Linux and cloud infrastructure, including migrations and replacement of end-of-life components
- Plan and deliver operating system, middleware, and library upgrades with strong change discipline and stakeholder alignment
- Remediate certificate, credential, and access issues through secure, repeatable processes and automation
- Improve platform hygiene and controls (for example, environment segregation and prevention of unsafe cross-environment usage)
- Support production incidents at third-line level, providing rapid mitigation and leading long-term remediation
- Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards
- Coordinate across multiple teams and component owners to land outcomes when dependencies sit outside your direct control
- Contribute to cost awareness by helping manage infrastructure usage, budget considerations, and efficiency opportunities
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Advanced Python software engineering experience delivering production-grade tooling and services
- Strong Linux systems knowledge, including troubleshooting performance, processes, services, and networking fundamentals
- Experience delivering controlled change in production environments (migrations, upgrades, platform hygiene, automation)
- Experience diagnosing complex production issues end to end, including stabilization and root-cause remediation
- Experience partnering with developers and production stakeholders to deliver enablement tooling and clear operating guidance
- Experience designing or supporting APIs and integrations used by downstream engineering or quantitative teams
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, testing,
- Working knowledge of SQL and familiarity with integrating across multiple data technologies (SQL and in-memory patterns)
- Strong ownership and problem-solving skills, with the ability to take ambiguous goals and drive them to completion
- Clear written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience modernizing legacy integration mechanisms (for example, file transfer stacks and messaging components)
- Familiarity with large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux estate upgrades and rollout strategies
- Experience building database hygiene tooling and operational guardrails integrated into application workflows
- Experience implementing secure credential management patterns (for example, vault migrations, key rotation automation)
- Experience upgrading batch scheduling or compute grid platforms and related tooling
- Practical experience with cloud infrastructure (for example, AWS) and operating hybrid estates
- Demonstrated use of AI tooling in daily engineering work to improve speed and quality
- Experience leading multi-workstream modernization portfolios driven by cyber resilience priorities
Skills Required
- Advanced Python software engineering experience delivering production-grade tooling and services
- Strong Linux systems knowledge, including performance, processes, services, and networking troubleshooting
- Experience delivering controlled production changes, migrations, upgrades, platform hygiene, and automation
- Experience diagnosing complex production issues through stabilization and root-cause remediation
- Experience partnering with developers and production stakeholders on enablement tooling and operating guidance
- Experience designing or supporting APIs and integrations
- Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity and secure input/output handling
- Hands-on experience using enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools
- Working knowledge of SQL and familiarity with SQL and in-memory data technologies
- Strong ownership, problem-solving, and ability to complete ambiguous objectives
- Clear written and verbal communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience modernizing legacy file transfer and messaging integration mechanisms
- Familiarity with large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux upgrades and rollout strategies
- Experience building database hygiene tooling and operational guardrails
- Experience implementing secure credential management, vault migrations, or key rotation automation
- Experience upgrading batch scheduling or compute grid platforms
- Practical AWS and hybrid cloud infrastructure experience
- Demonstrated use of AI tooling in daily engineering work
- Experience leading modernization portfolios driven by cyber resilience priorities
JPMorganChase Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about JPMorganChase and has not been reviewed or approved by JPMorganChase.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is considered comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, alongside wellness and mental health resources. Some locations add onsite health centers and related wellbeing support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k)-type savings plan and related financial benefits, with options such as employee stock purchase participation. Financial planning resources are also highlighted to support long-term savings.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for birth or adoption is available for all parents. Child care and back-up child care resources further reinforce family support.
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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. ©2023 JPMorgan Chase & Co. All rights reserved. JPMorgan Chase is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans.
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