Lead Front-end Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

HTML
JavaScript
Agile Methodologies
CSS
Cloud Computing
Databases
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
ECMAScript
Maven
Node.js
Scalable Vector Graphics
Software Engineering
Software Systems
TypeScript
React
Spring-boot
Build Server
Backend
Kubernetes
Production Code
Maintaining Code
Lodash
Build Tools
Front End Software Development
Programming Languages

Job description

As a Lead Front-end Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Risk Technology team, you will be a key player in an agile team, tasked with designing and delivering secure, stable, and scalable market-leading technology products. Your role involves implementing critical technology solutions across various technical areas within different business functions to support the firm's business objectives. Our primary front-end technologies include Javascript, Typescript, and React, which interface with a Spring Boot back-end and are deployed to Kubernetes-based platforms on both private and public clouds. A significant part of your role will be to ensure that our deployments, conducted via a build server, are efficient and well-controlled.

We primarily use Javascript, Typescript, and React as our main front-end technologies, interfacing with a Spring Boot back-end and deploying to Kubernetes-based platforms on both private and public cloud. We have a heavy focus on ensuring that our deployments, via a build server, are both efficient and well-controlled.

Job responsibilities

  • Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
  • Works closely with multiple teams to understand requirements, create solutions which meets business needs for the widest number of teams
  • Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
  • Continuously improves on system stability and efficiency
  • Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
  • 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

Requirements

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Solid development experience in Javascript, Typescript, React, or similar technologies
  • Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
  • Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
  • Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
  • Solid experience with Cloud deployment solutions such as Kubernetes

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Competency in HTML, CSS, SVG, ES6, TypeScript, React, Lodash, NodeJS
  • Experience with build tools such as Nx, and Maven
  • Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
  • Exposure to cloud technologies

About the company

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., 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.

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