Senior Lead Software Engineer, Python

JPMorgan Chase

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Jersey City, NJ
Salary
$171,000–$260,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $189k
This role $216k
$155k most similar roles pay here $271k

This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $166,100–$212,275 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $216k versus about $189k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a global financial services firm and one of the largest banks in the world, offering investment banking, commercial banking, asset management, and consumer financial services.

JPMorgan Chase currently has 436 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $152,000–$215,000 across 230 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at JPMorgan Chase

At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Lead Software Engineer, Python

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Markets Data Strategies Engineering team, you will lead an agile team in developing and enhancing market-leading technology products. Your daily responsibilities include designing high-performing applications and frameworks for the Markets Data Lake Platform, driving innovation through collaboration with global teams, and providing technical guidance to ensure secure and scalable solutions. You will work extensively with Python, Kafka streaming, AWS Cloud Platform, and big data technologies like AWS Lake Formation, while also contributing to engineering standards and advocating for leading-edge technologies. This role requires expertise in Sell-Side analytics platforms such as JPMC Athena and experience building highly available systems, making you a key player in advancing the firm's federated data lake pattern.

What you'll do

  • Design and build high-performing applications for the Markets Data Lake Platform using Python.
  • Drive innovation and set engineering standards within a globally distributed team.
  • Develop secure production code and review code written by others to maintain quality.
  • Implement microservices and real-time services using Kafka streaming technology.
  • Architect scalable solutions aligned with JPMorgan's federated data lake pattern.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on Python development
  • Expertise in designing and implementing software applications and APIs for big data technologies
  • Experience with AWS Cloud Platform, including Lake Formation and database technologies
  • Strong background in developing microservices using Kafka streaming and other real-time services
  • Proven ability to drive innovation and set engineering standards across globally distributed teams
  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts required
  • Deep understanding of Sell-Side analytics platforms like JPMC Athena, SecDB, Quartz

More like this

Similar roles

Lead Software Engineer - Java & Python

JPMorgan Chase

Jersey City, NJ 1 day ago $152,000$215,000
Java Python AWS Kubernetes Spring Boot Apache Kafka Splunk Dynatrace CI/CD RESTful APIs Apache Cassandra Agile SRE

Senior Lead Software Engineer, Python / Java

JPMorgan Chase

London, Greater London, United Kingdom 3 days ago
Python AWS RAG-based semantic search LLM inference workflows OpenAI Claude models Java CI/CD Cloud-native technologies Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence

Senior Lead Software Engineer, Non Linear Rates Risk

JPMorgan Chase

Jersey City, NJ 2 days ago $171,000$260,000
Python AWS Athena SecDB Quartz Risk methodologies PnL calculation frameworks Distributed systems Real-time data processing Relational databases NoSQL databases CI/CD pipelines Containerization Quantitative finance concepts Regulatory reporting requirements Cloud platforms

Sr Software Engineer, BE Python

PayPal

San Jose, CA +1 109 days ago $143,500$210,160
Python AWS Terraform Ansible GitHub Actions Puppet Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB DocumentDB Cassandra MySQL Aurora Redis ElasticSearch CI/CD Kubernetes Docker
Hybrid

Lead Python Software Engineer

Leidos

Gaithersburg, MD 3 days ago $87,100$157,450
Python Java PHP PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle Terraform Ansible Bamboo Docker SonarQube Git Bitbucket HTML5 JavaScript TypeScript CSS3 pytest Behave Selenium Playwright UNIX Linux Bash Shell JSON CSV XML XSD XSLT Agile CI/CD
Hybrid