lead software engineer - python / team lead - markets technology

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Equities Trading Technology Organization, you serve as a Lead Engineer on our agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You will partner with Product Owners, Front Office, Quantitative Research and Visual Designers to bring their vision of the next set of critical business functions into reality.

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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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

About the Innovation Lab in Athens

We recently moved into our new office in Athens, Greece. This investment is to support our organic growth in the country and to bolster the innovation efforts of our Payments and Markets business globally.

J.P. Morgan first opened its doors in Greece more than five decades ago, and today we provide products and services from across our Investment Banking, Payments and Asset & Wealth Management businesses to a number of local and multinational Greek clients.

Greek male nationals must have completed or have no obligatory military service obligations