Lead Software Engineer - Python Full Stack

About the role

As a Lead Software Engineer within the Commercial and Investment Bank Equities team at JPMorganChase, you will be an integral part of an agile team enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle diverse challenges spanning multiple technologies and applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and direction to support the business, technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Spearhead the delivery of a greenfield initiative to transform the storage and access of loan-related legal documentation using AI to enhance user analysis capabilities.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders in Trading, QR, Operations, and other global teams to ensure loan management platforms—both internal and client-facing—deliver a world-class experience.
• Contribute to the re-engineering and re-architecting of existing platforms to improve performance, availability, stability, efficiency, and scalability.
• Lead and contribute to identifying and implementing solutions for recurring issues to improve operational stability of software applications and systems.
• Drive design and architecture discussions to leverage new and emerging technologies for complex business deliveries.
• Offer leadership, support, and clear direction to global team members to enhance overall team performance.
• Actively contribute to the engineering community as an advocate for firmwide frameworks, tools, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices.
• Foster a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, including Python and React.
• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Experience developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment using modern programming languages.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, application resiliency, and system integration.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with minimal oversight.
• Degree-level education, ideally in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with TypeScript.
• Familiarity with cloud-based technologies, preferably AWS.
• Experience with order management and trading user interfaces, including knowledge of Athena.
• Understanding of financial products, specifically equity-based loans.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
• Commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation for eligible roles, awarded as cash and/or forfeitable equity.
• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support and financial coaching.