Lead Software Engineer (C++, Python)

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. Athena is a strategic technology platform designed to enable rapid innovation on the desk by offering Technologists, Quantitative Analysts and Risk Managers a consistent, cross-asset portfolio of models, frameworks and tools to use in building financial applications.

Athena Core Reactive Connectivity located in Israel is offering low-level transports for transferring huge amounts of trading and market data on a daily basis across critical JPMorgan businesses and with external venues. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, you serve as a seasoned member of an Athena Core Reactive Connectivity to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way.

As a lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Investment Banking and Athena Core you are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Collaborate with global international team of technical engineers and product owners
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
  
  

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proven experience in developing multi-threaded/multi-process products
• Proficient in coding in C++
• Proven experience in networking
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  
  

• Familiarity with modern networking technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Python experience is an advantage
• Excellent communication skills in English