Lead Software Engineer - Front End - Typescript React - VP

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in financial services is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join their Investment Banking team. The role involves designing and delivering market-leading technology products while collaborating within an agile team. Candidates should have significant experience in software development, particularly in React.js and GraphQL, with a strong focus on producing high-quality, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in system design and operational stability.
• Proven experience in developing production-ready applications.
• Experience writing scalable code in a corporate environment.

Responsibilities

• Execute software solutions and troubleshoot technical issues.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications.
• Develop and maintain responsive front-end applications.

Skills

Clean, maintainable, and testable code

Software design and application development

Experience in agile methodologies

React.js

GraphQL

TypeScript/ES6+, HTML5 and CSS3

Tools

AWS cloud services

Testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Playwright)

Component libraries (e.g., Material UI)

Job description

Overview

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

Qualifications

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code with attention to scalability
• 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 JPMorgan Chase

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. 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.