We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Web Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Athena Trade & Risk Services, you'll serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

We are seeking a dedicated professional who is a team player, self-motivated, and who achieves technological excellence in short timescales.

This is an extremely hands-on, delivery-focused, technical position involving a lot of analysis, coding, testing and interfacing with our end users. A good knowledge of Investment Banking and Markets is highly desirable but a thirst for knowledge and the knack to apply that knowledge is just as good to us. There will be a high degree of teamwork and technical peer interaction involved.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient applied experience.
• Recent, hands-on experience working with Typescript and React to build complex web applications.
• Recent, hands-on experience working with a modern object oriented language. Hands-on experience working with Tornado or equivalent Web Server frameworks supporting data UI requirements.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.

• GUI Usability experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of Markets trading or the finance industry is a plus.