Lead Software Engineer - Python, Django

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Infrastructure Platforms, 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in Python programming, with the ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code. Experience with database management and optimization, ensuring robust and scalable data solutions
• Strong experience in developing web applications using Django and Django REST Framework, with a focus on building scalable and maintainable APIs
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Strong experience in developing web applications using Django and Django REST Framework, with a focus on building scalable and maintainable APIs
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience with document-oriented database products: MongoDB, MarkLogic, DocumentDB etc
• Practical experience of architecting & developing applications or platforms on any one of the major public cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure).
• Knowledge and experience of industry wide technology strategies and best practices

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with CI/CD automation preferably including Jenkins, Bamboo and/or Spinnaker
• Experience with BDD and Cucumber
• Infrastructure-as-code experience – Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and/or Salt
• Industry cloud certifications are a bonus
• Proven expertise in designing, deploying, and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes, with a strong understanding of orchestration and scaling strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to architect and manage infrastructure on AWS Cloud, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to automate and optimize deployment processes.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing control plane architectures for large-scale applications, focusing on efficient resource management, orchestration, and system reliability to support complex, distributed systems.