Software Engineer II - React

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase, a leading financial services firm, is seeking a Software Engineer for their Strategic Growth Office. This role involves enhancing and delivering innovative technology products while ensuring system reliability and ease of operation. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Java or Kotlin, experience with modern frameworks, and the ability to adapt to quickly changing priorities, making significant contributions to the team's success.

Qualifications

• Experience building solutions on Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficient in building scalable front-end solutions with TypeScript and React.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture patterns and CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Execute software solutions and conduct technical troubleshooting.
• Write unit, integration, and performance tests to ensure software quality.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable solutions leveraging best industry practices.

Skills

Kotlin

Java

TypeScript

React

RESTful APIs

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

GitHub

Education

Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java

Tools

Spring Boot

Circle CI

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

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

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Strategic Growth Office and a part of the Aumni Team 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.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Structure software so that it is easy to understand, test and evolve.
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end and performance tests.
• Promptly investigate and fix issues and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Own and deliver end-to-end, scalable, and secure solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications, leveraging modern technologies and the best industry practices.
• Investigate and fix issues promptly and ensure they do not resurface in the future.
• Make sure our releases happen with zero downtime for our end-users.
• See that our data is written and read in a way that's optimized for our needs.
• Ensure our systems are reliable and easy to operate.
• Can take the initiative and shape their own path and a pragmatic and iterative approach to achieving our long-term goals.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Kotlin or Java concepts and proficient advanced experience (if Java, a willingness to learn Kotlin).
• Contribute to designing and building scalable and performant front-end solutions written in TypeScript using React.
• Experience building/consuming RESTful APIs and (micro)services with frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience working on globally distributed applications with strict consistency requirements.
• Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns.
• Experience with a modern CI/CD platforms such Circle Ci.
• Experience with modern version control platform such as GitHub.
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Learns technologies and patterns quickly. Comfortable in uncharted waters.
• Ability to see the long term by choosing suitable technologies and approaches based on the end goals.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Fluency across the full engineering stack, covering TypeScript, React (including common patterns in AG-Grid and Charting libraries), Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience designing and building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (AWS, GCP).
• Experience building and deploying on Kubernetes (or some other container orchestration platform).
• Experience using Kafka.