JPMorgan Software Engineer III - Python Senior Associate 

United Kingdom, England, London 

296173669

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
• Partner with the Front Office to develop new applications and maintain the existing stack to ensure stability.
• Participate in a new strategy to automate Front Office processes and functions using technology solutions.
• Collaborate with global and local counterparts to leverage best-in-class technologies and solve business problems.
• Engage in various business transformation projects across market/trade/client analytics and marking/publishing.
• Propose and explore new solutions that can give the firm an edge against the competition.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience developing in Python
• Experience with development, deployment, and maintenance of commercial service-oriented applications.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
• Experience with React and front-end development.
• Understanding of how to effectively utilize unit-testing.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Business knowledge of simple derivative products (e.g., vanilla options, variance swaps) and how to evaluate risk exposure using Greeks.
• Equities business knowledge or relevant experience in other business areas.
• Knowledge of at least one relational database such as Sybase, SQL Server, or Oracle.
• Unix or Linux knowledge.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and deployment processes.
• Experience with project management.
• Experience with service-oriented platforms and a good understanding of current generation open-source frameworks.