Lead Software Engineer - Front Office developer, Python/ Equity Prime Finance

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Houston, TX

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About The Position

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 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location.
• Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.
• We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.
• These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.
• Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees