As an Athena/Python, Front Office Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Precious Metals and Agriculture - Commodities Tech team, you will be an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges spanning multiple technologies and applications.
Job responsibilities
- Works closely with Precious Metals/Agriculture Trading, Quantitative Research, Sales, Middle Office, and other technology teams to gather requirements and deliver reliable and impactful solutions
- Designs, develops, and maintains trading applications and systems used by Front Office
- Troubleshoots production issues efficiently in a time sensitive environment
- Continuously improves code quality, performance and system resilience by developing secure and high quality production code, and reviewing and debugging code written by others
- Collaborates with global technology teams seamlessly and work in an agile manner
- Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Math, or equivalent training and relevant experience
- Hands on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Experience in performant, large scale system development in an object oriented or functional language such as Python, Java, etc.
- 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, object oriented programming, full stack development - end to end, quantitative finance)
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Enthusiastic to keep learning and growing, in technical aptitude and business understanding
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Software development experience in commodities, finance, or investment banking preferred, or willingness to rapidly learn the business domain
- Willingness to become proficient and develop in Python, if not already a primary language
- Ability to collaborate with other technology teams to deliver end to end solutions to the business in a constantly changing environment
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work directly with both business users and engineers