Lead Software Engineer

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

**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
- Works on JP Morgan flagship technology product, Athena, which is one of the largest Python code bases in the world (50+ million lines of code).
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Gains exposure to Pricing, Risk and Trade Management functions by working closely with business users
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
- Work closely with Quantitative Researchers to model and implement risk analytics and calculations across myriad of fixed income products
- Develop both front end trader facing tools to visualize risk/pnl analytics and back end feeds for critical regulatory and back office reporting and sign-offs

**Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 8+ years applied experience with python
- Practical cloud native experience is required
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s)-python, java
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

**Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills**
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies: React.JS, JQuery, GraphQL
- Exposure to cloud technologies, primarily AWS
- Fixed Income Risk/PnL analytics, integration and support
- Experience interacting with and solutioning with Front/Middle Office stakeholders
- Previous experience using Quartz, SecDB, Athena

**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.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.