Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Athena Engineering team, you will design, build, and enhance backend services and capabilities within the Athena ecosystem to support an externally facing cross-asset risk platform (FX, Rates, Credit, Equities).

This solution is a feature rich platform, offering traders and investment managers top-tier tools to optimize their portfolios and reduce risk exposure in a high-performance, externally facing client environment.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Athena Engineer (Back End): design, build, and enhance backend services and capabilities within the Athena ecosystem to support an externally facing cross-asset risk platform (FX, Rates, Credit, Equities).
• Build out new functions in risk management applications using Python for the backend and React, Redux, and TypeScript for the frontend.
• Collaborate with engineers and product management across the globe to deliver high-quality solutions for external clients.
• Build out the service layer monitoring and control functionality, maximizing the platform resiliency and robustness in a high-availability, high-throughput environment.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Seasoned developer experienced in high level languages such as: Python, C++, Java, or JavaScript.
• Proactive and independent — able to take ownership of deliverables and solve real world business problems in a client-facing production environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

   

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience in Python (backend).
• Experience in React and TypeScript.
• Experience in finance / investment banking as an application developer, ideally with exposure to FX, Rates, Credit, and/or Equities.
• Experience building and supporting high-performance backend systems (e.g., low-latency services, high-throughput APIs, observability/monitoring, resiliency patterns).