Software Engineering – Agency

Athena is a cross-asset platform transforming technology at JP Morgan. It delivers innovative and efficient applications to a wide range of firm’s business, including sales, trading, operations, risk and research. Athena combines the best of open source technologies with innovative components developed internally, which gives a potential candidate ability to contribute to wide range of exciting projects. Our developers enjoy working with front office, quants and other technology teams.

We are looking for hands-on developers, who enjoy solving challenging technical problems. Ideal candidates should have strong engineering foundations and be able to work across different platforms and languages. Candidates should be inspired by working in a collaborative, fast-changing environment with a high degree of code sharing and reuse. Focus on innovation and quality of solutions should be demonstrated by their contributions in previous professional roles or projects (either academic or personal).

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop robust and performant Risk Management APIs and Data Models as part of building new applications or enriching existing applications using Athena Platform. Align development with the overall Markets Trading strategy.
• Understand business processes and requirements and look for improvements to these as part of development. Identify key areas of efficiency gain through reuse across business processes.
• Work across entire software development lifecycle – requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, handover to operate teams.
• Enhance the team by demonstrating best practice throughout the software development lifecycle: testing, code review, accurate status reporting, focus on application resilience and “operability”.

Required qualifications:

• Software development experience in a modern, generic purpose language (preferably Java, Python)
• Strong foundations in Algorithms and Data Structures

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of the products traded in capital markets, business processes and applications underpinning them

• Knowledge of Object Oriented Language (Java, C++)
• Knowledge of distributed systems
• Experience in service-oriented architecture and API implementation

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

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. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.