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Lead Software Engineer - Markets Technology

144780-Payments_Us
Full-time
On-site
Houston, Texas, United States
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 Markets 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 conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.


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

  • Work in large collaborative teams regionally and globally to achieve organizational goals, and passionate about building an innovative culture

  • Own and deliver specific projects within the global program of work

  • Mentor team members to provide career development guidance and technical guidance

  • Proactively improves the process to ensure quality of the deliverables and the efficiency of the team improves.


Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills



  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience

  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability

  • Experience in performant, large-scale system development in an object-oriented or functional programming language such as Python, Java, C++ or C#

  • Self-motivated and willing to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language

  • Expertise in testing through the entire development cycle to produce reliable and maintainable software. 

  • Experience managing global teams of developers, providing technical support on a day-to-day basis

  • Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods

  • Proven experience leading team 

  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle

  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

  • Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)


Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills



  • Application development experience in Finance or Investment banking

  • Knowledge of Equities, FX, Credit, Rates, Commodities asset classes and/or Index & Portfolio analytics