Lead Software Engineer - Front End - Typescript React - VP

J.P. Morgan; City Of London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global banking institution is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in London to develop cutting-edge software solutions using React and Typescript. Candidates should have solid experience in agile methodologies and cloud-native technologies. The ideal candidate will contribute to a diverse team and drive technical improvements in application architecture.

Qualifications

• Proficient experience in front-end development with React and Typescript.
• Hands-on experience in system design and application development.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, and security.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain responsive front-end applications using React.js.
• Create secure and high-quality production code.
• Proactively identify hidden problems in data to drive improvements.

Skills

React

Typescript

GraphQL

Agile methodologies

Cloud native experience

Debugging

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

Webpack

Vite

Material UI

Job description

Overview

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

As a Lead Software Engineer 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

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
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical cloud native experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• 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)
• Proficiency in 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)