
Front End Lead Software Engineer- JavaScript / TypeScript / React
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 19 days ago
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- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
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Lead front-end engineer role on JPMorgan Chase's Consumer and Community Bank Digital Technology team, responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high-quality React/TypeScript web applications. Acts as a core technical contributor—writing and reviewing code, ensuring testing and operational stability, and driving architecture and performance optimizations for SPA(s). Leads evaluations with vendors and internal teams, promotes best practices and communities of practice, and helps implement CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native solutions.
Location: New York, NY, United States
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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
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
- 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
- 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





