Front End / React Lead Software Engineer

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Front End / React Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer and Community Bank - Digital Technology, you will play a crucial role as part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. Your work will focus on ensuring these products are secure, stable, and scalable.

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
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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
• Strong experience working with popular front-end JavaScript frameworks including React 
• Knowledge and experience in ES6+ 
• Understanding of modern design patterns used in JavaScript 
• Knowledge and experience working with HTML5, CSS and popular precompilers, like Sass and LESS 
• Knowledge and experience using popular build tools, like Gulp and Webpack 
• Knowledge and experience in TDD and modern testing frameworks that support it, like Karma and Mocha 
• Understanding of source control and experience working with modern tools that support it, such as Git 
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge and experience in TypeScript and experience in using CSS for animation 
• Understanding UX design concepts like responsive web design 
• Work with web performance tools, such as Lighthouse 
• Experience building UI web components to support a hybrid experience in mobile apps