Location: LONDON, United Kingdom

We are building out the Wholesale Credit Risk Core Platform which will be the software platform for all of Wholesale Credit Risk Technology, providing standardized best-in-class deployment strategies, common services and components, controls, testing practices, alerting, and monitoring.

As a Lead Front-end Engineer  at JPMorgan Chase within the Risk Technology team, you will be a key player in an agile team, tasked with designing and delivering secure, stable, and scalable market-leading technology products. Your role involves implementing critical technology solutions across various technical areas within different business functions to support the firm's business objectives. Our primary front-end technologies include Javascript, Typescript, and React, which interface with a Spring Boot back-end and are deployed to Kubernetes-based platforms on both private and public clouds. A significant part of your role will be to ensure that our deployments, conducted via a build server, are efficient and well-controlled. 

 

We primarily use Javascript, Typescript, and React as our main front-end technologies, interfacing with a Spring Boot back-end and deploying to Kubernetes-based platforms on both private and public cloud.  We have a heavy focus on ensuring that our deployments, via a build server, are both efficient and well-controlled.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems 
• Works closely with multiple teams to understand requirements, create solutions which meets business needs for the widest number of teams
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems 
• Continuously improves on system stability and efficiency
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development 
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies 
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience 
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability 
• Solid development experience in Javascript, Typescript, React, or similar technologies
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages 
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle 
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security 

• Solid experience with Cloud deployment solutions such as Kubernetes 

   

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Competency in HTML, CSS, SVG, ES6, TypeScript, React, Lodash, NodeJS
• Experience with build tools such as Nx, and Maven
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies 
• Exposure to cloud technologies

 

Front-end engineering lead using Typescript, Javascript, React and building standardized best-in-class deployment strategies and SDLC.