Frontend Software Engineer III - Platform Services

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services leader is seeking a UI Software Engineer III in Glasgow. This role focuses on designing and delivering high-quality technology products using React and TypeScript within an agile team. Candidates should have a strong background in software development, particularly in creating secure UI components and managing complex state logic. A commitment to diversity and inclusion is emphasized within the company's culture.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on React concepts required.
• Expertise in TypeScript and React JS is essential.
• Hands-on experience with automation test frameworks necessary.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure and high-quality production code.
• Optimize UI components for performance across devices.
• Conduct testing and debugging of UI components.

Skills

React concepts

Component-based architecture

TypeScript proficiency

State management using Redux

Automation testing frameworks

Modern CSS techniques

Performance testing

Tools

Cucumber

Jest

Cypress

NodeJS

Figma

Job description

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

As a UI Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Oversight and Governance Technology group, 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 using Type Script to create React Components
• Optimize UI components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Implement and maintain reusable code and libraries for future use, ensuring consistency and efficiency in UI development.
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging of UI components to ensure high-quality and bug-free user interfaces.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies, and apply them to improve the user experience.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification on React concepts and proficient applied experience
• Expertise in component-based architecture with React JS, improving code quality through TypeScript, utilizing closures and asynchronous programming in JavaScript, and developing scalable server-side applications with NodeJS.
• Practical professional experience in managing state within React applications, using tools like Redux and Context API to handle complex state logic and ensure smooth data flow across components.
• Hands-on professional experience with automation test frameworks like Cucumber, Jest, Cypress and Storybook to write unit tests, component tests and contract tests.
• Hands-on professional experience with modern CSS techniques and frameworks
• Experience with performance testing browser based applications.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Familiarity with Micro-front end architecture
• Familiarity working with Figma Tools
• Exposure to cloud technologies

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. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.