Sr Lead Software Engineer - C++, Python

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan

Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms group, you are 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 that span multiple technologies and applications.

This group specifically supports a massive application, Athena, which is a strategic technology platform that empowers Technologists, Quantitative Analysts, and Risk Managers with a consistent, cross‑asset portfolio of models, frameworks, and tools for building innovative financial applications. Athena Core Reactive delivers the core time‑series engine for the entire platform, supporting critical JPMorgan businesses with thousands of users, millions of lines of code, and extensive daily production usage.

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Design and build new features required by the business
• Advance platform modernization and integrate AI tools to effectively support business requirements
• Maintain and optimize existing services to keep up with ever growing users base and scale
• Collaborate with global international team of technical engineers and product owners
• Develops secure and high‑quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function‑wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision‑makers to consider the use and application of leading‑edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

• Formal training or certification on C++/Pythonsoftware engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands‑on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in‑depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

• Experience developing multi‑threaded/multi‑process products
• Experience in networking and/or messaging systems