Software Engineer II - Front End, React, Typescript - Associate

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Software Engineer II to join their Investment Banking team in London. You will be responsible for designing and delivering secure technology products, contributing to software engineering communities, and developing responsive applications using React.js and GraphQL. This role offers an exciting opportunity to enhance digital capabilities and drive innovation within the firm.

Qualifications

• Proficient in front-end development with React and Typescript.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies and cloud-native experience.

Responsibilities

• Executes software solutions and technical troubleshooting.
• Develops and maintains responsive front-end applications using React.js.
• Gathers and analyzes data to improve software applications.

Skills

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

HTML5

CSS3

Agile methodologies

Cloud native experience

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

AWS

Webpack

Vite

Jest

Playwright

Job description

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

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within Investment Banking, 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.

Transaction Development is a centralised hub that generates buyer intelligence on Mid-Cap sponsors for JPM sell-sides, by leveraging deep knowledge of Sponsor investment strategies.

In order to execute at scale, a newly created technology team is embarking on a multi-year journey to provide enhanced digital capabilities to enable Transaction Development to take full advantage of the deep client relationships we have across GB and scaling proprietary idea generation

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
• Translate UI/UX designs and wireframes into high-quality code
• Develop and maintain responsive front-end applications using React.js
• Build and consume APIs using GraphQL for efficient data fetching
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with attention to scalability

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience in front end development such as React and Typescript
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical cloud native experience
• Proven experience developing production-ready applications with React
• String understanding of GraphQL (queries, mutations, subscriptions, schema design)
• Solid grasp of TypeScript/ES6+, HTML5 and CSS3
• Experience with component libraries and design systems (e.g. Material UI) and using build tools and bundlers (e.g. Webpack, Vite)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with AWS cloud services (e.g. EC2, S3, IAM, Cloudwatch)
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
• Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Playwright)