Senior Lead Software Engineer - UI Developer - React

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

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in Greater London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Equities Sales and Trading Technology team. In this role, you will enhance and deliver market-leading technology products while providing technical guidance and developing high-quality production code. Candidates should have experience in software engineering, including programming, cloud technologies, and a strong understanding of technical processes. This position offers a dynamic environment with significant opportunities for impact and growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of applied experience in software engineering.
• Practical experience in application development and operational stability.
• Ability to tackle problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to support the business.
• Develops secure production code and reviews it.
• Drives product design and technical operations.

Skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts

Hands-on practical experience delivering system design

Advanced in one or more programming language(s)

Advanced knowledge of software applications

Cloud native experience

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

React 17+

AG Grid

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 Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Equities Sales and Trading 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

• Regularly 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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• 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

• Expertise in React 17+ and modern front-end development practices
• Experience with AG Grid or similar advanced data grid libraries
• Proven ability to optimize web applications for performance and responsiveness
• Familiarity with handling high-frequency data updates in UI applications
• Strong understanding of application profiling and tuning techniques
• Knowledge of AI integration or cloud technologies, especially AWS
• Experience working in fast-paced, agile environments within financial services