Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
Be a key part of an agile team driving innovation to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products. Bring your Software Engineering career to the next level and become an integral part of an agile front-office technology team where your expertise advances next-generation solutions. We value your contributions and empower you to stay at the forefront of industry trends. Join us and thrive in a culture built on diversity, opportunity, and respect.

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 work 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, applying deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges spanning multiple technologies and applications.

Key responsibilities include working closely with Precious Metals/Agriculture Trading, Quantitative Research, Sales, Middle Office, and other technology teams to gather requirements and deliver reliable and impactful solutions. You will design, develop, and maintain trading applications and systems used by the Front Office, troubleshoot production issues efficiently in a time-sensitive environment, and continuously improve code quality, performance, and system resilience by developing secure and high-quality production code as well as reviewing and debugging code written by others.

Collaboration with global technology teams in an agile manner is essential. You will also contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies, while adding to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Experience
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with advanced practical 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 or Java
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies including 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, quantitative finance)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

About you
- Enthusiastic to keep learning and growing in both technical aptitude and business understanding
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work directly with both business users and engineers
- Ability to collaborate effectively with other technology teams to deliver end-to-end solutions in a constantly changing environment

Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or equivalent training and relevant experience
- 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