Lead Software Engineer- Market Risk
Company: JPMorganChase
Location: New York, NY 10172
Salary: $152,000 - $215,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-22
About this role
JOB DESCRIPTION
Join us as a Python engineer to collaborate with Market Risk stakeholders and deliver swift, practical solutions. You'll actively shape priorities, contribute ideas, and promote decisions while engaging deeply with the code. This senior role offers significant influence, allowing you to transform MVPs into reliable production solutions and support workflows related to VaR and Stress.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within our Market Risk Technology team you will support JPMorgan’s Risk Managers in understanding firmwide exposures and running core risk processes. In this RAD role, you will help identify the right problems to solve, propose options, brainstorm with stakeholders, and turn MVPs into reliable production solutions that integrate with existing platforms. You will contribute to workflows related to VaR and Stress, and you will own delivery from discovery through deployment and support. This is a senior individual contributor role with meaningful influence.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead ideation and problem framing, present options and trade-offs, and help teams converge on the right solutions
- Stay hands-on in Python to design, implement, and productionize utilities and services that integrate with firmwide platforms, including Athena or SecDB
- Use LLMs effectively as an AI generalist to speed up prototyping, documentation, code assistance, and operational support
- Streamline manual steps and reduce cycle time through thoughtful automation and simplification
- Uphold engineering standards across design, coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and runbooks
- Maintain operational stability with pragmatic monitoring, logging, and metrics
- Communicate clearly across business stakeholders, quant teams, and technology teams; present demos and drive alignment
- Foster a culture of collaboration, diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect; share best practices and improve team ways of working
- Continuous...