Lead Software Engineer - Python

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Houston, TX +1 · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead Software Engineer with strong Python and backend API skills, responsible for designing, developing, and delivering technology solutions within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Prime Finance Technology. The role involves executing creative software solutions, troubleshooting, code review, identifying automation opportunities, leading evaluation sessions, and fostering a culture of innovation and learning. Familiarity with Agile methodologies and financial services industry IT systems is required. Experience with Agentic AI programming and AWS services is preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  4. Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
  5. Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • backend API
  • Database - SQL
  • designing Architecture
  • Agile development methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • financial services industry IT systems

Nice to have

  • Agentic AI programming
  • prompt engineering
  • agentic-based design patterns
  • AWS services

What the JD emphasized

  • Python
  • backend API
  • Database - SQL
  • designing Architecture
  • Agentic AI programming
  • prompt engineering
  • agentic-based design patterns