Lead Software Engineer Speech App Frontend - JavaScript, Typescript, AI

Testing Site - JPMC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Jersey City requires a Lead Software Engineer to advance AI-enhanced user interfaces for large-scale internal tools. You will drive React-based development, collaborate with product, design, and backend teams, and uphold performance, accessibility, and security standards across fintech applications.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to design systems, and help shape CI/CD pipelines for reliable delivery in an agile setting.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Expertly demonstrate deep expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and ESG+.
• Consistently show advanced proficiency in React, with a track record of building and maintaining complex applications.
• Strongly possess a background in modern web development, including responsive design and performance optimization.
• Solidly understand REST APIs and asynchronous data flows.
• Diligently write clean, testable code and unit tests.
• Successfully thrive in agile, distributed teams.
• Attentively maintain a customer-focused mindset with excellent communication skills.
• Familiarly apply accessibility standards and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of sophisticated AI-enhanced user interfaces for large-scale internal tools.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and backend engineering teams to deliver seamless, forward-thinking solutions.
• Own the codebase by writing clean, efficient, and reusable React code, and ensure high standards through code reviews and testing.
• Drive quality by conducting thorough testing, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing for performance and accessibility.
• Mentor and inspire junior engineers, share best practices, and foster continuous learning.
• Communicate effectively by gathering requirements, providing updates, and translating complex technical concepts for stakeholders.
• Stay ahead of the latest trends in front-end and AI technologies, and champion continuous improvement.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

REST APIs

Accessibility

Agile

Testing

CI/CD

Design systems

Tools

Express

Kubernetes

Datadog

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 JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank - Digital Experience Design team, youare 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. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

The Digital Experience Design team is dedicated to strategically integrating generative AI across the firm, driving innovation in major internal applications that utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to boost employee productivity. In this role, you will design and implement new features, improve application performance, and uphold the reliability and accessibility of React-based solutions that serve thousands of internal users. You will collaborate with server-side engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver advanced, user-centric interfaces that fully leverage the capabilities of generative AI.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the development of sophisticated AI-enhanced user interfaces for large-scale internal tools
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and backend engineering teams to deliver seamless, forward-thinking solutions.
• Own the codebase by writing clean, efficient, and reusable React code, and ensure high standards through code reviews and testing.
• Drive quality by conducting thorough testing, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing for performance and accessibility.
• Mentor and inspire junior engineers, share best practices, and foster continuous learning.
• Communicate effectively by gathering requirements, providing updates, and translating complex technical concepts for stakeholders.
• Stay ahead of the latest trends in front-end and AI technologies, and champion continuous improvement.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Expertly demonstrate deep expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, and ESG+
• Consistently show advanced proficiency in React, with a track record of building and maintaining complex applications.
• Strongly possess a background in modern web development, including responsive design and performance optimization.
• Solidly understand REST APIs and asynchronous data flows.
• Diligently write clean, testable code and unit tests.
• Successfully thrive in agile, distributed teams.
• Attentively maintain a customer-focused mindset with excellent communication skills.
• Familiarly apply accessibility standards and best practices.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Full stack JavaScript experience, especially with Express for API development.
• Hands-on experience with design systems, component libraries, and delivering consistent UI/UX at scale.
• Effectively design, implement, and manage continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate software build, test, and deployment processes.
• Understands container orchestration and management using Kubernetes, including deploying, scaling, and monitoring containerized applications.
• Utilizes monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog to ensure application performance, reliability, and proactive issue detection.