Senior Lead Software Engineer - Front-End Developer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking financial services leader as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, where you'll drive the development of a strategic visualization and reporting platform. This role offers the opportunity to work in an agile environment, utilizing your expertise in React, TypeScript, and JavaScript to deliver innovative solutions that meet regulatory standards. You'll collaborate with a dynamic team, tackle complex challenges, and contribute to impactful projects that enhance business outcomes. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a difference in a diverse and inclusive workplace, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Proficient experience in system design, application development, and operational stability.
• Expertise in UI engineering best practices and data sourcing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing team to develop secure and high-quality production code.
• Collaborate with product managers and UX to ensure smooth delivery of features.

Skills

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Node.js

CSS

Data sourcing strategies

Ag-grid

Highcharts

D3.js

Education

Formal training in Computer Science

Tools

Developer tooling

Build tools

Job description

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Job Description

Be an integral part of a team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology Market Risk team, you will lead the rapid expansion of a strategic visualization and reporting platform. You will be an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology solutions in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and 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 and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Work with other platform leaders, product managers, product owners, scrum masters and UX to ensure the smooth delivery of features and valuable solutions.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide and Risk Technology frameworks, tools, standards and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of strategic, leading-edge technologies
• Lead by developing a high performing, dynamic team and help them minimize impediments to development progress
• Demonstrate ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Computer Science concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expertise in React and ability advise best practices evolving UI engineering landscape including: modern standards for CSS, browser support, responsiveness, accessibility, developer tooling, build tools, deployment strategies, scalable build patterns, enterprise engineering (scalability, resiliency), quality assurance, visual and acceptance testing
• Expertise with TypeScript and JavaScript, Node.js, common patterns in ag-grid, Highcharts, d3 and practical cloud native experience
• Design and implement data sourcing strategies to collect and integrate data from various internal and external sources.
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness across all data sources while collaborating with data providers and stakeholders to understand data requirements and ensure seamless data flow.
• Stay up-to-date with legal and jurisdiction-based requirements related to Market Risk reporting, while ensuring the platform meets all regulatory requirements and standards.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience working with UX professionals
• Experience working with design systems

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 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.

About the Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.