Software Engineer III - Python - Senior Associate

Job Description
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the EDG Front-Office Tech stream , you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
Join JPMorgan Chase's EDG Front-Office Tech stream as a Senior Software Engineer, where you'll partner closely with the trading desk, technology teams, and Quantitative Research to develop and enhance critical applications. Utilize a wide variety of technologies, including Python, Java, and React/Redux, to solve business problems and automate Front Office processes.
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.

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Global Banking business is one of the largest wholesale banking client franchises in the world. We serve clients, including corporations, governments, states, municipalities, healthcare organizations, education institutions, banks and investors.
Commercial Banking provides credit and financing, treasury and payment services, international banking and real estate services to clients-including corporations, municipalities, institutions, real estate investors and owners, and not-for-profit organizations.