Chase · 21 hours ago
Senior Lead Software Engineer -Python, Investment Banking
545 Washington Blvd, Jersey City, NJ, 07310, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$171K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expJPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers and businesses. They are seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer specializing in Python and Distributed Computing to design and deliver technology products in support of their investment banking operations.
BankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way
Responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives
Work on the development of Athena, a Python based Market Risk, pricing, and trade management platform
Enable rapid innovation on the desk by offering Technologists, Quantitative Analysts and Risk Managers a consistent, cross-asset portfolio of models, frameworks and tools to use in building financial applications
Qualification
Required
Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Strong analytical development skills, solid understanding of computer science fundamentals and experience in real-time, resilient, high performance and/or risk and pricing and/or eTrading areas
Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
Demonstrated experience working on distributed systems and with distributed computing on data intensive applications
Experience working on event driven systems, including strong architecture design
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
Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firm wide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
Creative, quick-thinking, pragmatic, with an aptitude for solving problems with technology and an ability to quickly translate requirements into a sound technical design and implementation
Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
Preferred
Strong Python
Experience with SecDB / Athena / Quartz platform
Experience working in large mono-repo codebases, where code often rolls out to production within minutes
Familiarity with Investment Banking, FinTech or Financial Markets
Knowledge of GraphQL is good to have
Benefits
Comprehensive health care coverage
On-site health and wellness centers
A retirement savings plan
Backup childcare
Tuition reimbursement
Mental health support
Financial coaching
Company
Chase
Chase provides broad range of financial services. It is a sub-organization of JP Morgan Chase.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Mike McDonnell
Managing Director, Head of Chase Travel Platform Product
Nicole Sanchez
Managing Director, Consumer Bank, GM and Product Executive, Growth Financial Products
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