Lead Software Engineer – Python Full-Stack

at  JPMorgan Chase Co

JOB DESCRIPTION

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Banking’s Engineering & Architecture team, you will play a crucial role in an agile team, contributing to the design and delivery of trusted, market-leading technology products for over 18,000 technologists. Your responsibilities will include defining and implementing technical solutions with the goal of enhancing the developer experience for a highly technical audience, thereby boosting their efficiency and effectiveness.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and significant applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in Python software engineering.
• Experience coaching/mentoring junior developers
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Proficient in Linux environments with Shell scripts
• Experience with databases (SQL/NoSQL), messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ etc.), caching (Redis etc.)
• Familiarity with authentication concepts (Kerberos/OAuth)
• Familiarity with automation tools (Ansible/Rundeck/Puppet)
• Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS), infrastructure provisioning (Terraform) and containerization (Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, etc)

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.

• Defines and builds distributed, microservices based software solutions to enable provisioning of public cloud infrastructure to support self-service, on-demand cloud development environments.
• Design and implement solutions that are scalable, highly available and secure and with a focus on day 2 operations.
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies