Lead Software Engineer - Web Application Developer (React, TypeScript)

Overview

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank - Payments Technology team, you will play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. This position is perfect for team members who are passionate about creating high-performance, elegant user experiences in the finance sector and excel in a dynamic environment with custom backend integrations. You will collaborate directly with the lead developer and offer support to both users and technology partners within the firm.

Job Responsibilities

• Leads execution of software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Troubleshoots, debugs, and resolves technical issues across development and production environments
• Collaborates with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver high-quality solutions
• Participates in code reviews, technical discussions, documentation writing, and knowledge sharing with the team
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
  
  

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Advanced proficiency in React and its core principles including component-based architecture using React JS, enhancing code quality with TypeScript and deep understanding of JavaScript
• Strong experience with Redux or other state management solutions
• Hands-on experience with modern CSS techniques and frameworks
• Solid understanding of application architecture, event-driven systems, and inter-process communication
• Deep Experience integrating RESTful APIs, WebSockets, or message buses
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies, CI/CD, Application Resiliency and Security
  
  

• Hands-on experience building and deploying applications using OpenFin and/or Electron
• Exposure to RxJS and reactive programming patterns
• Experience with native application development using C#/.NET
• Exposure to AI code assistant tools