UI Lead Software Engineer - React

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Glasgow is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Vida team within the Corporate and Investment Bank Markets; you will help build and deliver reliable, market-leading technology with a focus on security, stability, and scalability.

You will lead design reviews, drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices, and collaborate with backend teams to design scalable RESTful APIs while fostering a diverse, inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience building UI using React.
• Experience delivering system design and production code with operational stability.
• Proficiency across the software development life cycle and SDLC.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and security practices in agile teams.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
• Develops secure high-quality production code and reviews code.
• Identifies opportunities to automate remediation for stability.
• Leads architectural design discussions with vendors and teams.
• Leads communities of practice to promote new technologies.
• Drives adoption of enterprise AI-assisted engineering practices.
• Applies SDLC tools and automation to improve value.

Skills

React

UI development

System design

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Cloud native

AI-assisted tooling

Testing (RTL/Cypress)

Leadership

Security & resilience

ag-grid

Highcharts

Redux

Typescript

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the award-winning Vida team that is part of the Corporate and Investment Bank Markets Business, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering reliable, market-leading technology products with a focus on security, stability, and scalability.

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 high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Significant commercial experience developing UI's with hands-on applied experience developing in React
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting
• Experience collaborating with backend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to frontend libraries such as ag-grid, highcharts, redux as well as Typescript
• Exposure to performance tuning complex UI's would be advantageous.
• Working within Investment Bank / Finance Technology
• Team leading experience