Lead Software Engineer - React

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Chicago seeks a Lead Software Engineer to advance trusted market-leading technology products within Corporate Technology. You will drive architecture and deliver secure, scalable software across multiple technologies.

Collaborate with UX designers and product owners to translate requirements into intuitive interfaces, mentor teams, and push AI-assisted engineering practices while upholding secure coding and high-quality code delivery.

Qualifications

• Formal degree or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of UI development experience using React.
• Experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Strong knowledge of agile methods, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security in SDLC.

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, while establishing consistent validation standards
• 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.

Skills

React

CI/CD

RESTful APIs

Cloud-native

AI in engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Cypress

React Testing Library

Ag-grid

Redux

Highcharts

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 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