Front End Lead Software Engineer- JavaScript / TypeScript / React

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 Consumer and Community Bank, Digital Technology team, 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. 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.

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
• 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
• Identifies opportunities for process and tool improvements and drive those from concept to implementation
• Engineers a world-class platform with an eye towards rapid iteration and creative problem solving
• Ensures quality and completeness of the product through unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Adheres to architecture standards, risk management, and security policies
• Contributes and collaborates in creation and consumption of open, standards-based solutions, while working with existing enterprise technologies and infrastructure

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Understanding of software design patterns and paradigms, such as object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP)
• Expertise in hands on coding with React, JavaScript, TypeScript and other web technologies for implementing web applications
• Experience in unit, component, integration, and end-to-end testing including the use of libraries like Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Selenium, etc.
• Knowledge and experience with build pipelines, such as Jenkins, etc.
• Experience with Single Page Application (SPA) development, with page optimization (performance), and understanding of performance consideration for React or other SPA-based web applications
• Experience architecting and implementing RESTful web services
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with relational databases, GraphQL and integrating these with web services
• Experience in customizing CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation as well as CSS pre-processors like Less or Sass
• Understanding of Material UI, Chakra UI, or similar component libraries
• Experience with SSR (Server-Side Rendering) and SSG (Server-Side Generation) preferably using Next.js

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.