Lead Software Engineer - Python, AWS, Terraform

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

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking's Post Trade Tech team, 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 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
• Designs, develops, and maintains scalable database solutions on AWS.
• Utilizes Python for automation, data processing, and application development.
• Implements infrastructure as code using Terraform to manage AWS resources.
• Develops and maintains CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth deployment processes.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Optimizes system performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with AWS services (e.g., RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, KMS, Step Functions, ECS, EKS ).
• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker, AWS CodeDeploy).
• Observability with Cloudwatch / Grafana / Splunk / Datadog
• Good knowledge of computing concepts, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience with database design, optimization, and management.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, API design, application development, software testing, security and operational resiliency.
• Practical cloud native experience 

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or similar certification.
• In depth knowledge of Terraform or Cloud Formation (IAC)
• Strong Python and software engineering experience.
• Advanced software testing skills 
• Experience in DevOps and working in an Agile environment.