Senior Lead Software Engineer - Frontend (Typescript/React)

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Job Description

Be an integral part of an agile team that is constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, deliver and operate technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase, you will be leading change as part of an agile team in Corporate Technology Engineering and Architecture that works to enhance, build, deliver and operate solutions whilst mentoring junior members of the team. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions, and apply technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to break down complex and ambiguous problems into technical specifications that an engineering team can implement under your guidance.
• Lead and participate in regular technical meetings, ensuring that architectural decisions align with the broader organizational goals and strategy
• Own and deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices
• Develops secure, high quality, full-stack production code; reviews and debugs code written by others
• Support the products you've built through their entire life cycle, including production and incident management
• Collaborates with cross functional teams to understand their domain and data requirements, to help shape the development of products.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience. In addition, proven experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expert knowledge of the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expert knowledge in developing, debugging, and maintaining code with modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Expert knowledge with front-end languages and frameworks (e.g. typescript/react)
• Expert knowledge with UX design concepts (e.g. responsive web design)
• Experience building solutions on at least one Cloud platform (e.g. AWS)
• Experience of integration technologies (e.g. GraphQL, REST etc..)
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Practical experience of designing and deploying applications on AWS
• Practical cloud native experience
• Knowledge with server-side languages and frameworks (e.g. Java/SpringBoot)

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

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.