LeadSoftwareEngineer-React

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking firm as a Lead Software Engineer, where you will play a pivotal role in developing market-leading technology products. This position offers the chance to work within an agile team, enhancing and delivering innovative solutions that drive business objectives. Your expertise in system design and application development will be critical as you collaborate closely with product teams to bring ideas to fruition. With a focus on operational stability and cutting-edge technologies, this role promises a dynamic environment where your contributions will have a lasting impact. Embrace the opportunity to grow in a diverse and inclusive workplace that values your unique talents.

Qualifications

• Advanced experience in system design and application development.
• Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods.
• In-depth knowledge of financial services IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Execute creative software solutions and troubleshoot technical problems.
• Develop secure high-quality production code and review others' code.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring issues for operational stability.

Skills

System Design

Application Development

Testing

Operational Stability

Programming Languages

Automation

Agile Methodologies

Cloud Native Experience

Financial Services Knowledge

Education

Formal Training in System Design

AWS Certification

Tools

AWS Atlas

Postgres

MongoDB

React UI

Java/Kotlin

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Investment Banking, you are 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.

The Debt Capital Markets Technology team is responsible for delivering insights to help aid the DCM Bankers in tracking down opportunities in the market through desktop and mobile applications.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Drive best practices and standards in the team
• Working closely with Product to come up with ideas and delivering them to the business

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on system design concepts and proficient advanced experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience
• AWS Atlas
• Exposure to Databases such as Postgres, MongoDB
• React UI and Java/Kotlin

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS Certification
• Expert Engineer (E2)
• Agile Experience

About the Team

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.