React Senior Lead Software Engineer

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Digital Banking organization, 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

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors


• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others


• 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


• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies


• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting while thinking beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems


• 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


• Write test cases, leverage unit and integration testing, develop functionality and automation​


• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience


• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability


• Expert proficiency in JavaScript, Typescript, and the React.js ecosystem


• Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)


• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight


• Ability to collaborate with high-performing teams and individuals


• Experience managing code versioning and Pull Request (PR)/review practices for large teams


• Passionate about building an innovative culture and modern technology organization, and desire to continuously learn and grow


• Advocate of code quality and consistent experience with unit, functional, and integration code testing


• Understanding of Agile SDLC methodology, including business analysis, development, maintenance, and improvement


• Strong partnership capabilities in a cross-disciplinary organization and desire to learn and understand the business, and how requirements satisfy business needs

• Experience with monorepo design and efficient implementations


• Experience with building cloud-native applications, ideally familiar with AWS, Azure, Pivotal, or other cloud platforms


• Familiar with designing and consuming APIs/microservices frameworks


• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines (ex: Jenkins) with end-to-end automation


• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines


• Understanding of web development best practices including security, RESTful practices


• Engineering in Fintech working in Investment Banking or Capital Markets