Software Engineer III - Python Developer, Spark, Cloud

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Software Engineer III - Python Developer, Spark, Cloud at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Markets Technology Team, you will 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. More specifically, your task will be to help design and build cloud native components to make nimble our realtime risk calculation and viewing infrastructure. For context, the ability to calculate timely and accurate risk is at the heart of equities derivatives business.

Job responsibilities

• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Create secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced knowledge of Python and associated web frameworks e.g., Starlette, Tornado etc
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• 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

• Exposure to big data frameworks like Apache Spark
• Exposure to public cloud providers e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure
• Domain knowledge (progress towards CFA/FRM)