Lead Software Engineer - Python - Markets Technology - Athens
Lead Software Engineer - Python - Markets Technology - Athens
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We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of whats possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Trading Technology Organization youare an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance build and deliver trusted marketleading technology products in a secure stable and scalable way. As a core technical contributor you are responsible for leading critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firms business objectives. The Equities technology Team has 1000s of engineers working across a number of challenging business problems. These range from building low latency algorithmic trading solving complex functions using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing to gain insight and execute trades.
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 highquality 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 evaluation sessions with external vendors startups and internal teams to drive outcomesoriented probing of architectural designs technical credentials and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leadingedge technologies
- Own the delivery of valueadd activities leading a scrum team 35 people) and be an active member governing the overall platform.
- Engineer a suite of performant scalable and reusable RESTful microservices and APIs using Python. Championing quality and owning the nonfunctional requirements.
- Have the freedom to act like an owner and ensure the health of the platform is maintained through initiatives such as a journey from private to public cloud (AWS) and our devops operating model.
- Collaborate with the team to form the sprints that will get us to the MVP and then finally the target state.
- Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing platform framework SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices.
- Collaborate with other backend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of microservices components to facilitate faster development.
Required qualifications capabilities and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
- Handson practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability
- Advanced in Python programming language 5y)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD Applicant Resiliency and Security
- Experience building and maintaining a microservices architecture.
- Knowledge of the Python web frameworks (e.g. Flask Tornado Bottle) and OO databases (e.g. mongodb)
- Experience in developing debugging and automated testing (e.g. PyUnit) within a commercial setting
- Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum sprint planning retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with frontend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs
Preferred qualifications capabilities and skills
- Exposure to python libraries such as pandas scipy and numpy
- Exposure to python concurrency through python multiprocessing would be advantageous.
- Exposure to grid computing concepts would be advantageous.
- Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology
About the Innovation Lab in Athens
We recently moved into our new office in Athens Greece. This investment is to support our organic growth in the country and to bolster the innovation efforts of our Payments and Markets business globally.
J.P. Morgan first opened its doors in Greece more than five decades ago and today we provide products and services from across our Investment Banking Payments and Asset & Wealth Management businesses to a number of local and multinational Greek clients.
Greek male nationals must have completed or have no obligatory military service obligations
Employment Type
Full-Time
