Senior Lead Software Engineer- UI Platform

J.P. Morgan; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services firm as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, driving significant impact by enhancing and delivering technology products within a diverse and agile team. This role requires strong programming skills, experience in application development, and a collaborative spirit in fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion within the team.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in software engineering.
• Significant experience in delivering enterprise software.
• Practical cloud native experience.

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains UI components using Typescript and React.
• Partners with Designers to provide technical input to designs.
• Provides technical guidance to support business and technical teams.

Skills

Software engineering concepts

Programming languages

System design

Application development

Cloud native

Artificial intelligence

Machine learning

Education

Computer Science

Computer Engineering

Mathematics

Job description

Be an integral part of an agile 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 Corporate Oversight and Governance Technology, 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. 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

• Partners with Platform Designers to provide technical input to designs, ensures definition of sufficient details in backlog for engineers to deliver.
• Acts as an Individual contributor for UI components using Typescript, React and Salt Design System
• Develops and maintains automations, developer experience tools and guidance documentation.
• Provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with applied experience.
• Significant experience delivering high quality enterprise software
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience creating component libraries and interaction patterns
• Experience of visual regression testing, accessibility testing and other quality automations
• Practical experience of educating and mentoring others