Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python/Smalltalk

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate & Investment Banking Markets 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.
As part of the Rates Technology team you will dive head-first into creating innovative solutions that advance businesses and careers. You'll join an inspiring and curious team of technologists dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and products. You'll be tasked with keeping the team and other key stakeholders up to speed on the progress of what's being developed. Coming in with an understanding of the importance of end-to-end software development-such as Agile frameworks-is key. And best of all, you'll be working with and sharing ideas, information and innovation with our global team of technologists from all over the world.
You will work directly with stake holders to understand business cases and problems and be responsible for the full pipeline of software delivery. You will build up relationships with internal clients and take full ownership for software delivery. You should be a self-sufficient developer comfortable tackling new and complex problem sets.
We are looking for a candidate that has a passion for software development, with experience in back-end and front-end software development, using strong Object Oriented Software design and practices.
This role offers a range of interesting opportunities, including close partnership with Middle Office, leading and mentoring a team, and propose innovative solutions, face and solve hard problems and collaborate and interact with other teams and stake holders.
Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Work directly with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand business context and translate this into technical solutions
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Part of an agile and delivery focused team working with global and local counterparts using best practices to produce high quality software to solve business problems
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions
• Lead and mentor a team and be a part of guiding careers
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more Object Oriented programming languages (Python, Smalltalk, C#/C++, Ruby or similar)
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices in particular Object Oriented Design
• Fluent in English
• Strong system troubleshooting skills, solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
• Creative, quick-thinking, pragmatic, with an aptitude for solving problems with technology and an ability to quickly translate requirements into a sound technical design and implementation
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with no oversight
• Excellent collaboration and organizational skills, decisive priority management, strong teamwork ethic, excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Experience leading a team, conducting code reviews, mentoring and guiding more junior team members
• Ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Python and Smalltalk experience are a plus
• 10+ years of Software Development Experience
• Knowledge on Financial Products/Industry domain or willingness to learn about it
• Experience as Financial developer in the Rates Derivatives business

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
The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world's most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.