Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python / React

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London, Greater London, England
Hybrid
Senior level
Financial Services
We’re one of the world’s biggest technology-driven companies
The Role
The Senior Lead Software Engineer will design and develop UI for managed database services, ensuring application performance and mentoring junior engineers while fostering innovation.
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Job Description
Within our Core & Foundational Platforms group, we are looking for an experienced Senior Lead Software Engineer who has a thirst for knowledge and maintains the highest standards. This is an opportunity to be a member of our highly strategic team, focusing on building a common UI on top of a shared control plane servicing managed database services. This is a key growth area over the coming years as the demand grows around products to enhance AI/ML capabilities. Our group is responsible for building centralized platform & database services across public cloud and hybrid cloud (on-prem & public cloud). These services are leveraged by all of our lines of business across the globe.
You will be working on architecting and engineering the control plane for provisioning, automation, scaling, integrations & self-service to make it available for consumption by any of our thousands of applications. You will be a senior engineer designing & building streamlined, compliant, and innovative products in an ever-changing landscape and providing a superb customer experience.
We have a dynamic, diverse, and exciting global team covering an array of technologies, languages, and database products with fantastic cross-training available. This is a real opportunity to be a part of a team firmly building for the future. We have a vision of a versatile & rich array of highly consumable products to rival any cloud provider which will meet the needs of our thousands of business technologists.
Job Responsibilities:

  • Help lead the design and development of a common user interface for our managed database services.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
  • Drive the architecture and technical direction of the control plane and UI/UX components.
  • Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our solutions remain cutting-edge.


Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on Python language concepts and proficient advanced experience
  • Strong proficiency in ReactJS, TypeScript, and Python.
  • Experience with NoSQL database products.
  • Practical experience of architecting & developing applications or platforms on any one of the major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google). Industry cloud certifications are a bonus.
  • Knowledge and experience of industry-wide technology strategies and best practices.
  • Unit-testing framework(s) & BDD/TDD.
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience - Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and/or Salt.
  • Understanding and experience of Agile and Lean philosophies including experience with JIRA, YouTrack, and/or similar.
  • Experience of Python frameworks - Django/Flask etc.
  • Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills with clear communication.


Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

  • Understanding the importance of great documentation and a passion for helping customers.
  • Comfortable in setting and defining strategic priorities and working with product management.
  • Ability to collaborate with different roles to achieve common goals.


About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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Ansible
AWS
Azure
Django
Flask
GCP
JIRA
NoSQL
Puppet
Python
React
Salt
Terraform
Typescript
Youtrack

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HQ: New York, NY
289,097 Employees
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Year Founded: 1799

What We Do

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $3.7 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.

Technology fuels every aspect of our company and is at the heart of everything we do. With over 50,000 technologists globally and an annual tech spend of $12 billion, we are dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.

Learn more about technology at our firm, explore resources from our Distinguished Engineers, AI & ML researchers, and other experts; access the latest episode of our TechTrends podcast, and more at www.jpmorgan.com/technology. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.

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