Lead Software Engineer - UX/React

J.P. Morgan; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm based in Glasgow is looking for a Lead Software Engineer - UX/React to join their Finance Technology team. This role involves enhancing and delivering market-leading technology products, designing scalable systems, and creating high-quality user interfaces. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in system design and development using React and Python, along with a passion for user experience and agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in system design, application development, and testing.
• Advanced skills in creating responsive UIs using React and Python.
• Familiarity with state management libraries like Redux.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable systems using ReactJS and Python.
• Execute software solutions and conduct technical troubleshooting.
• Create UI that is secure and production-ready using React.

Skills

React

Python

CSS

Redux

User experience design

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Playwright

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible and be involved in build a green field application.

As a Lead Software Engineer - UX/React at JPMorganChase within Finance Technology, youare an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Participates in, design and develop scalable and resilient systems using ReactJS and Python to contribute to continual, iterative improvements for product teams.
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Creates secure and high-quality production ready UIusing React.
• Develop and execute design/research strategies for complex projects and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas.
• Diagram service flows and product features, design wireframes, and prototype interactions for key touchpoints as you lead end-to-end design initiatives within a specific domain.
• Produces or contributes to architecture and design artifacts for applications while 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.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Gain experience in application development, with a focus on creating efficient and user-friendly software.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability.
• Advanced skills in designing and developing responsive and visually appealing user interfaces using React, Python, and CSS, ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Able to design wireframes and understanding of Salt-Design System.
• Experience with state management libraries (Redux)
• Implement and maintain reusable code and libraries for future use, ensuring consistency and efficiency in UI development.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
• Experience using testing frameworks e.g Playwright
• Experience in building reusable components and implementing server-side rendering
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience and certification in AWS and/or Databricks.
• Proven experience in building and designing large-scale global software solutions.
• Experience in Data Engineering, working with big data, data warehouses, and understanding data modelling; Data Mesh Architecture and building applications using Data Mesh Architecture.
• Familiarity with orchestration tools such as MWAA.