
Front End / React Lead Software Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 15 hours ago
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- Not specified
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
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Lead front-end engineer role focused on designing, building, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable web experiences using React. You will work on an agile team to produce high-quality production code, drive system design, and improve operational stability through automation and testing. The role includes technical leadership activities such as code review, vendor and architecture evaluations, and leading communities of practice. Practical cloud-native experience and modern front-end tooling and testing practices are expected.
Location: New York, NY, United States
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
Seeking a strong Lead Front End / React Software Engineer





