Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Banking 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors


• Work directly with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand business context and translate this into technical solutions


• Develop robust, performant software products and APIs, and enrich existing applications using the internal platform


• Enhance the team by demonstrating best practice throughout the software development lifecycle: testing, code review, accurate status reporting, focus on application resilience and operability


• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others


• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes


• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus


• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle such as requirement gathering, design, implementation, testing, and handover to line of business teams


• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies


• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and 5+ years applied experience


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


• Advanced in Python utilizing the language to build large, scalable applications


• Experience with UI concepts, languages, and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3.


• Object oriented experience with proven track record of high quality successful delivery


• Expertise in service-oriented architecture and APIs implementation


• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)


• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight


• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

• Experience with No-Sql databases 


• Knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems 


• Cloud native experience