Lead Software Engineer - Front End - Typescript React - VP

JPMorganChase; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to enhance investment banking technology initiatives. You will design and deliver high-quality software while collaborating with an agile team. Candidates should have extensive experience in React, TypeScript, and agile methodologies. This role offers a dynamic work environment focused on innovation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proficient experience in front end development with React and TypeScript.
• Experience in application development and operational stability.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD and application resiliency.

Responsibilities

• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Create secure and high-quality production code.
• Gather and analyze data for software applications and systems.

Skills

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Agile methodologies

Cloud native experience

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

AWS cloud services

Webpack

Jest

Job description

Lead Software Engineer – Investment Banking

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.

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 visualisations 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
• Strong 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)

About Us

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. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.