JPMorgan Software Engineer III - Python 

United States, Texas, Houston 

208622970

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 3+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Highly Proficient in coding in Python or within Athena platform environment.
• Excellent understanding of Core Python concepts, including modules, dynamic data types, object-oriented design, memory management, and new language features of Python 3.
• 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 UI concepts, languages and platforms including JavaScript/REACT, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3.
• Python performance analysis & tuning – profiling tools, runtime configurations, etc
• Overall good knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Optimize code for performance and scalability.

Other nice-to-have skills that will give you an advantage in this role include:

• Experience with tick store databases, such as KDB.
• Experience with Databases – relational as well as No-SQL - Oracle / Cassandra.
• Experience with Messaging Middleware - Kafka / MQ.
• Integrate data from various sources and APIs, Graphql usage.
• Experience supporting production environments, responding to user concerns, and taking ownership of production issues.
• Good understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security.
• Experience working in financial services / understanding of equity derivative products and risk management.