We are thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity to become part of an agile development team focused on a premier Cross-Asset platform, Nexus, which enables clients to implement their investment strategies. In this role, you will collaborate with talented engineers from around the globe and gain insights into the entire portfolio management lifecycle.

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Nexus business, you will be an integral member of an agile team, tasked with designing and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products that are secure, stable, and scalable. You will work closely with Product Owners, the Front Office, and Quantitative Research teams to transform their vision for the next set of essential business functions into reality.

Job responsibilities

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.Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.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.Collaborate 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 Python concepts and 2+ years applied experienceExperience 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 settingSolid understanding of CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins), Application Resiliency, and SecurityExperience collaborating with frontend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

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