Lead Software Engineer - Python / PySpark / AWS

Job Description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Markets Technology and Spread Pricing Direct team, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. 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
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• 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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Expert-level Python programming with strong software engineering fundamentals (OOP, design patterns, testing)
• Advanced PySpark development including performance tuning, memory management, and optimization techniques
• Deep hands-on experience building production ETL/ELT pipelines processing terabytes to petabytes of data
• Proven expertise with AWS Glue (Spark and Python Shell jobs), Glue Data Catalog, crawlers, and workflows
• Strong experience architecting and implementing data lakes on AWS S3 with multi-zone design (raw/curated/analytics)
• Production experience with Apache Iceberg including schema evolution, partitioning strategies, compaction, and maintenance
• Solid understanding of open table formats (Iceberg) and their trade-offs
• Proficiency with AWS services: S3, IAM, Lake Formation, Athena, EMR, Kinesis, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudWatch
• Experience with SQL optimization, query engines (Trino, Presto, Athena, Spark SQL), and data modeling
• Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, conducting effective code reviews and technical guidance
• Knowledge of Perl

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge of the financial products (e.g. Fixed Income Securities, Structured products, Derivatives etc.)
• Understanding of NoSQL databases

About Us

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.