Senior Lead Software Engineer - UI Developer - React

J.P. MORGAN; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in Greater London is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to join their agile team. The successful candidate will be crucial to enhancing, building, and delivering top-tier technology products in the Equities Sales and Trading Technology segment. Key responsibilities include providing technical direction, developing high-quality production code, and influencing product design decisions. Candidates should have a strong background in software engineering, cloud technologies, and advanced programming skills, preferably in a fast-paced financial environment.

Benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Equity in the workplace

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with 5+ years of experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design and application development.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance to support the business and technical teams.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews code.
• Drives decisions that influence product design and application functionality.

Skills

Software engineering concepts

System design

Application development

Operational stability

Advanced programming languages

Cloud native experience

AI integration

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

React 17+

AG Grid

Job description

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 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

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

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.