JPMorgan Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python/Smalltalk 

Argentina, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 

494684334

As part of the Rates Technology team you will dive head-first into creating innovative solutions that advance businesses and careers. You’ll join an inspiring and curious team of technologists dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and products. You’ll be tasked with keeping the team and other key stakeholders up to speed on the progress of what’s being developed. Coming in with an understanding of the importance of end-to-end software development-such as Agile frameworks-is key. And best of all, you’ll be working with and sharing ideas, information and innovation with our global team of technologists from all over the world.

You will work directly with stake holders to understand business cases and problems and be responsible for the full pipeline of software delivery. You will build up relationships with internal clients and take full ownership for software delivery. You should be a self-sufficient developer comfortable tackling new and complex problem sets.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Work directly with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand business context and translate this into technical solutions
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Part of an agile and delivery focused team working with global and local counterparts using best practices to produce high quality software to solve business problems
• Creates durable, reusable software frameworks that are leveraged across teams and functions
• Lead and mentor a team and be a part of guiding careers
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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 Object Oriented programming languages (Python, Smalltalk, C#/C++, Ruby or similar)
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices in particular Object Oriented Design
• Fluent in English
• Strong system troubleshooting skills, solid understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
• Creative, quick-thinking, pragmatic, with an aptitude for solving problems with technology and an ability to quickly translate requirements into a sound technical design and implementation
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with no oversight
• Excellent collaboration and organizational skills, decisive priority management, strong teamwork ethic, excellent verbal & written communication skills
• Experience leading a team, conducting code reviews, mentoring and guiding more junior team members
• Ability to present and effectively communicate with Senior Leaders and Executives

• Python and Smalltalk experience are a plus
• 10+ years of Software Development Experience
• Knowledge on Financial Products/Industry domain or willingness to learn about it
• Experience as Financial developer in the Rates Derivatives business