Lead Software Engineer - React

JPMorganChase; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 138,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase, Chicago, IL, is seeking a Lead Software Engineer - React to join Corporate Technology. You will drive the development of high quality UI components, mentor teammates, and help deliver scalable, secure software in a fast-paced, agile environment.

The role requires 5+ years of React experience, cloud native skills, and strong testing with modern tools. You will collaborate with product and UX, work on RESTful APIs, and explore AI-assisted development practices to improve quality

Qualifications

• 5+ years of React UI development experience.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operations.
• Cloud native experience and CI/CD, security, and resiliency knowledge.
• Proficient with AI-assisted development tools and responsible AI practices.
• Experience collaborating with backend teams on scalable RESTful APIs.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions and design with advanced problem-solving.
• Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems and real-time data streaming.
• Develops secure production code and reviews others' code.
• Identify opportunities to automate remediation for stability.
• Lead vendor and cross-team evaluation sessions on architecture.
• Lead communities of practice to promote new technologies.
• Collaborate with UX and product owners to translate requirements into UI.
• Contribute to a culture of diversity, inclusion and respect.
• Promote AI-assisted engineering practices to improve quality and speed.

Skills

React

CI/CD

Cloud native

RESTful APIs

Kubernetes

Typescript

AI-assisted tools

Agile

UI testing

Education

Software engineering degree

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

AI-assisted dev tools

RESTful APIs

Typescript

ag-grid

redux

highcharts

Job description

Lead Software Engineer - React

Chicago, IL, United States

Job Information

Job Identification 210796797

Job Category Software Engineering

Business Unit Corporate Sector

Posting Date 10/14/2026, 05:16 PM

Locations 10 S Dearborn St, Chicago, IL, 60603, US

Job Schedule Full time

Job Shift Day

Base Pay/Salary Chicago,IL $137,750.00-$185,000.00

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 Corporate 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

• 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.
• Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems including event-driven pipelines, CQRS patterns, and real-time data streaming
• 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
• Collaborate with UX designers and product owners to translate requirements into intuitive UI screens and user flows.
• 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

• Formal degree or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied 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 understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security, and Software Development Lifecycle
• 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 management experience
• Experience in DevOps model and Kubernetes, cloud auto scalable infrastructure