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Job Description
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. A good knowledge of Investment Banking and Markets is highly desirable but a thirst for knowledge and the knack to apply that knowledge is just as good to us.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking's Athena Trade Risk & Services team, you will build the next generation of trade structuring tools and components needed by teams across Markets and used globally by our trading desks and support teams. You will work closely with our Athena Trade Risk & Services function, as a member of a highly skilled, agile development team. There will be a high degree of teamwork and technical peer interaction involved.
Job responsibilities
- Write awesome, high quality Backend Python code following the principles of SOLID, YAGNI, KISS and TDD.
- Participate in requirements meetings with our users and propose technical solutions
- Evangelize and seek new opportunities for our product to be used by other development teams not already using the platform.
- Complete full lifecycle development projects as well as post-production maintenance and enhancements
- Support other development teams using our components by answering questions, researching system issues, identifying root causes, and resolving problems
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong technology background with experience in object-oriented programming, test driven development viz Python.
- Experience in building and debugging application build on distributed computing architecture.
- Good understanding of event based architecture.
- Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good interpersonal skills and able to work effectively in a global team.
- Self-starter and willing to work in a dynamic environment with constantly evolving priorities.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 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.
- Tech Lead experience will be useful
