Lead Software Engineer - Python

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank in Markets technology Securitized products, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

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
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Own the delivery of value-add activities leading a scrum team and be an active member governing the overall platform.
• Being able to engineer a suite of performant, scalable and reusable RESTful micro-services and APIs using Python along with championing quality and owning the non-functional requirements. 
• Collaborate with the team to form the sprints that will get us to the MVP and then finally the target state.
• Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
• Collaborate with other backend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of microservices components to facilitate faster development
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s) Python
• 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
• Experience building and maintaining a Microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of the Python web frameworks (example Flask, Tornado, Bottle) and relational database.
• Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. PyUnit) within a commercial setting
• Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating with frontend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs
   

• Exposure to python libraries such as pandas, scipy and numpy
• Exposure to python concurrency through python multiprocessing would be an advantage.
• Experience in working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology
• Knowledge of the financial products (e.g. Fixed Income Securities, Structured products, Derivatives etc.)