Lead Software Engineer - VP - Salt Design System

ZipRecruiter; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan seeks a Lead Software Engineer to develop the Salt Design System, ensuring high-quality UI components and collaboration with designers and product managers. This role focuses on React development, facilitating design consistency and accessibility across digital products. Join a team that values diversity and innovation in the financial services sector.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a multi-tenant enterprise design system.
• Knowledge of UI accessibility concerns and open source design systems.
• Strong understanding of modern front-end development technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of high-quality React components for the Salt Design System.
• Collaborate with designers and stakeholders to implement UI designs.
• Conduct code reviews and maintain coding standards.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

Responsive Web Design

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Tools

Git

Figma

NextJS

Remix

esbuild

rollup

vite

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

Are you a Senior React developer seeking an exciting opportunity to contribute to JP Morgan's Salt Design system?

Are you looking to be part of a collaborative team that values Open Source, leads the way in CIB UI strategy, and is actively building a design system while fostering a collaborative community around its products?

The Front-end Development team at Digital Platform has an opening for a Lead Software engineer role. As a Front-end developer, you will play a crucial role in the development and delivery of the Salt Design System. We leverage the latest UI technologies to deliver the maximum value to our stakeholders.

The Salt Design System is the next UI Toolkit for CIB (Commercial & Investment Bank). It provides a comprehensive set of core UI components that can be used by different lines of business to create reusable patterns for their applications. These components and guidelines are designed to accelerate application design and development, while ensuring consistency and accessibility (WCAG 2.1) through stable design foundations.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the development and maintain high-quality React components/patterns for the Salt Design System.
• Collaborate with designers to implement UI designs and ensure consistency across digital products.
• Work closely with product managers, stakeholders, and other developers to understand requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, following best practices and standards.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to standards.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in front-end development, and actively contribute to improving our development processes and tools.
• Add to the team culture of diversity, equity, and respect.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience leading the creation or maintenance of a multi-tenant enterprise design system at scale.
• Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and responsive web design.
• Familiarity with modern front-end development tools and libraries (e.g., esbuild, rollup, vite).
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative workflows.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team.
• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within disciplines such as cloud, AI, ML, mobile, etc.
• Strong understanding of UI accessibility concerns.
• Knowledge of open source design systems.

Additional Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies (e.g., NextJS, Remix).
• Experience as an open source contributor or library maintainer.
• Knowledge of asynchronous operations in JavaScript (e.g., Axios, RxJS).
• Experience solving UI state management for components.
• Advocate for Clean Code principles.
• Experience with Figma plugin development.
• Familiarity with JPM's existing design systems (UITK, MDS).

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 approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their objectives.

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on protected attributes and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees' needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting accommodations.

About The Team

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services, and payments. We serve clients in over 100 countries, providing strategic advice, capital raising, risk management, and liquidity extension worldwide.