Lead Software Engineer - VP - Salt Design System

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

Job summary

A global financial services firm in London is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to guide the development of the Salt Design System. The ideal candidate should have expertise in React, strong problem-solving skills, and a solid understanding of HTML/CSS. You will collaborate with a diverse team to deliver high-quality UI components. This role requires maintenance of high standards in code quality and an awareness of UI accessibility concerns. Competitive compensation and a dynamic work environment are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and maintaining a multi-tenant enterprise design system.
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and responsive web design.
• Familiar with modern front-end development tools and libraries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and maintain high-quality React components for the Salt Design System.
• Collaborate with designers to ensure consistency across digital products.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices.

Skills

React development

HTML

CSS

Problem-solving skills

Collaboration skills

Tools

Git

esbuild

Rollup

Vite

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12.08.2025

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26.09.2025

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Job Description:

Are you a Senior React developer seeking an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of ?

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 generation 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 business 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 our 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 coding 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 the improvement of our development processes and tools.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Led the creation or maintains a multi-tenant enterprise design system at scale
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and responsive web design.
• Familiarity with modern front-end development tools and libraries (. esbuild, rollup, vite).
• Knowledge of version control systems (., Git) and collaborative development workflows.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Emerging knowledge, opinion and of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile,
• A strong understanding of UI accessibility concerns
• Knowledge of open source design systems

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies (. NextJS, Remix)
• Existing open source contributor or library maintainer
• Familiarity with solving UI state management for components
• Clean Code advocate
• Familiarity with one of JPM's existing design languages (UITK, MDS)