
Front End / React Lead Software Engineer
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 17 days ago
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Lead front-end/React engineer within JPMorgan Chase's Consumer and Community Bank Digital Technology team, responsible for designing, building, and delivering secure, stable, and scalable web products. The role involves hands-on development of high-quality production code, debugging, driving operational stability, and leading technical evaluations with vendors and internal teams. Required skills include 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong React and ES6+ expertise, modern JS design patterns, HTML5/CSS (Sass/LESS), build tools (Webpack/Gulp), testing (TDD/Karma/Mocha), Git, CI/CD, and practical cloud-native experience.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
Currency: Not specified
Full Job Description
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





