JPMorgan Lead Software Engineer - Python / Team Markets Technology Athens 

Greece, Attica, Athens 

289042979

Job responsibilities

• Manage the team in our Athens Location
• Own the delivery of value-add activities leading a scrum team (3-5 people) and be an active member governing the overall platform.
• Engineer a suite of performant, scalable and reusable RESTful micro-services and APIs using Python. Championing quality and owning the non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with the team to form the sprints that will get us to the MVP and then finally the target state.
• Act as a Lead developer who will help set direction and best practice around automated testing, platform framework, SDLC as well as acting a point of contact for more junior developers to give them guidance on best practices through mentoring.
• Collaborate with other backend developers to get involved with code reviews and building up our suite of microservices components to facilitate faster development.
• Close collaboration with a number of teams including Trading, Sales, Quantitative Research, as well as other technology teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language (s) and proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Experience in managing people (be a people person).
• Commercial experience working with Python
• Experience building and maintaining a microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of the Python web frameworks (e.g. Flask, Tornado, Bottle) and OO databases (e.g. mongo-db).
• Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. PyUnit) within a commercial setting
• Experience in leading an agile delivery team leveraging scrum, sprint planning, retrospectives and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience collaborating with frontend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs

• Exposure to python libraries such as pandas, scipy and numpy
• Exposure to python concurrency through python multiprocessing would be advantageous.
• Exposure to grid computing concepts would be advantageous.
• Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology