Lead Software Engineer- Python | Glasgow, UK

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Glasgow
1 month ago
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Job Description

Exciting opportunity to join the Credit Trading, Markets technology team building out a full end to end strategic trade management capability for the Exotics business within JP Morgan's strategic Athena platform.

As a Lead Python Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Bank Technology team, your role will be pivotal in a rapidly expanding global agile team. You will be involved in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle, from analysis and design to development and testing, delivering valuable solutions to our trading and operations stakeholders. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with a high-performing team to deliver critical technology solutions across various technical domains to meet business objectives.

This role will involve developing components for the firm's strategic trading and risk management platform, crafting services in Python with front ends in modern React and Typescript, and implementing trade execution and management functionalities for Fixed Income financial products. Initial tasks will encompass trade processing, including capturing, storing, and feeding trades from exchanges and blotters through to settlement and accounting. A thorough understanding of Agile Delivery Methodologies and Object-Oriented Design is required for this role, along with the ability to excel in a team through outstanding technical contributions, communication, and partnership.

Job responsibilities

  • 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
  • Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
  • 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
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect


Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Proficient in coding in one or more languages such as Python
  • Experience with modern web app development using TypeScript and React
  • Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
  • Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
  • Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)


Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

  • Familiarity with modern software development
  • Ability to work on large scale systems, navigating unknowns and producing robust solutions to complex issues
  • Knowledge of Fixed Income financial markets products is preferred but not necessary


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.

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.#J-18808-Ljbffr

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