Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python/AWS

Location: Houston, TX onsite

Benefits and culture

• Commission-based pay to recognize performance and drive results
• Discretionary incentive compensation paid in cash and/or forfeitable equity
• Comprehensive health care coverage for you and your family
• On-site health and wellness centers supporting your well being
• Retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future
• Backup childcare options to support work-life balance
• Tuition reimbursement for continuous learning
• Mental health support and resources
• Financial coaching to help you manage your finances

JPMorgan Chase emphasizes a culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect across technology teams and stakeholders, fostering collaboration and growth in every project.

Responsibilities

• Provide regular technical guidance and direction to support business needs, technology teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develop secure, high-quality production code; review and debug peers’ code and document solutions for multiple business areas
• Ensure adherence to firm wide architecture standards, risk management, and security policies
• Identify opportunities to improve design and development processes and drive efficiencies
• Grasp current stack use cases to guide the transformation program toward solving all relevant scenarios
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with businesses across Technology and other stakeholders
• Collaborate effectively within a team to resolve issues with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels
• Influence product design, application functionality, and technical operations decisions
• Serve as a function-wide subject matter expert in areas of focus, advocating cutting-edge technologies
• Contribute to the engineering community by promoting firmwide SDLC frameworks, tools, and practices
• Support and nurture a team culture grounded in diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of applied experience; also 2+ years leading technologists to solve complex technical items within your domain
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability using CI/CD and test driven development
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, including Python and related backend and data lake technologies on AWS (Lambda, Glue, KMS, Terraform, PL/SQL, Unix/Linux)
• Strong knowledge of information technology with emphasis on application design, development principles, patterns, and maintenance of software applications, plus depth in areas such as cloud, AI, ML, or mobile
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams and contribute to an innovative culture
• Capacity to absorb problems and present creative solutions within required timelines
• Experience building highly responsive user interface components using React concepts
• Experience building cloud native applications from a domain driven design and microservices perspective, supporting multiple API versions
• Ability to collaborate on solutions including conceptual, logical, and physical data models
• Active participation in scrum ceremonies with product owners and the scrum team
• Practical experience with cloud native concepts around data storage and data processing

Technologies

• Python
• AWS
• Lambda
• Glue
• KMS
• Terraform
• PL/SQL
• Unix/Linux
• React

About the team

JPMorgan Chase's Commercial & Investment Bank operates as a global leader across banking, markets, securities services, and payments. Corporations, governments, and institutions worldwide rely on the firm for strategic advice, capital markets access, risk management, and liquidity solutions across more than 100 countries.