Senior Lead Software Engineer, Python, Investable Indices Equities Derivatives Technology

Job Description :

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase withinin the Cross Markets Strategic Index 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

J.P. Morgan's Cross Markets Strategic Index team is the most successful investable index franchise on Wall Street. We have consistently been ranked number one for innovation, assets under management, and revenue. The strategic index platform, which covers all aspects of trading, sales and structuring (including risk, profit and loss, execution, booking, market data and client facing applications), is the foundation for this continuously growing, and increasingly automated market.

The Strategic Index technology team designs and develops various applications, processes and software components for the Strategic Index desk. You will work with a global team of innovators and technologists passionate about improving the way our index business is run. Partnering with our colleagues in the Quantitative Research, Structuring, Trading, Sales and Middle Office teams, you will be called upon to deliver quality code in a fast paced environment that evolves as business opportunities present themselves.
Our platform is built using the Athena platform. Athena is J.P. Morgan's cross-market risk management and trading system that provides functionality for traders, salespeople and operations staff globally. Athena includes an engineer friendly integrated development environment, globally replicated object-oriented database, a powerful calculation dependency graph and a fully integrated stack across pricing, risk and trading tools. Athena is designed to provide a continuous deployment environment, and pull developers close to the business to help increase revenues, while improving operational processes and controls to reduce costs. Athena applications are written in Python and Typescript.

Job responsibilities

• Own and deliver specific projects within the global program of work
• Collaborate with and influence other technology teams to deliver solutions to meet the needs of our users
  

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or other related disciplines
• 5 or more years of software engineering experience. Mastery in Python with respect to designing, coding, testing , and software delivery
• The role requires a technically strong and disciplined developer. The successful candidate will be able to make impactful functional deliveries they will also be one of a handful of senior technologists responsible for influencing design decisions across the group, including ensuring that we continuously improve the platform's design as we incorporate new capabilities. A record of delivering high quality, well-tested solutions in a mature controlled environment is a prerequisite.
• Experience in performant, large-scale system development in an object-oriented or functional programming language such as Python, Java, C++ or C#.
• Willingness to become proficient and develop in Python if not already a primary language.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to interact confidently and credibly with business users, to understand and agree business requirements and their prioritization while building a good understanding of end to end business processes.
• Good understanding of Agile development methodologies, responsible for elucidating and agreeing requirements, building relationships with business users, and taking ownership of deliverables all the way to the production environment.
• Focus on testing through the entire development cycle to produce reliable and maintainable software.
• Enthusiastic to keep learning and growing, in technical aptitude, business understanding and personal effectiveness.
• Eager to take ownership of work, have real business impact, overcome obstacles and take it through to completion, working as part of this team and collaborating with a much bigger community of developers sharing the technology and code base.
  Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Experience in finance or investment banking (Market Risk, P&L and/or financial modelling) as an application developer is preferred. Knowledge of Equities, FX, Credit, Rates, Commodities asset classes and/or Index & Portfolio analytics