Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python, Typescript

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · Jersey City, NJ +1 · Corporate Sector

Senior Lead Software Engineer for a Commercial & Investment Bank's Equity Derivatives real-time Pricing Technology team, focusing on enhancing, building, and delivering technology products. The role involves technical guidance, code development, debugging, and driving product design decisions using Python and TypeScript (React).

What you'd actually do

  1. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  2. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Will be working as front office developer in the Realtime Pricing technology team
  4. Will join a technology team that work in very close partnership with front office teams (trading, structuring) in support of the Realtime Pricing platform.
  5. Developing the platform and visualization components required by the desk

Skills

Required

  • 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 programming language(s) Solid foundation in computer science and software engineering principles in any language - Python and TypeScript (React)
  • Excellent analytical skills (i.e. problem solving)
  • Financial experience required
  • Self-starter with the ability to quickly pick up new ideas, concepts and technologies
  • Disciplined approach to code management, testing and deployment practices
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Nice to have

  • Experience of working in a front office environment within financial services

What the JD emphasized

  • Financial experience required