Lead Software Engineer - UI Lead

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology, 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

• Lead the definition, design, and development of major new features for both current and future products, ensuring timely completion.
• Conduct code reviews with peers, fostering a collaborative environment where learning and contribution are mutual.
• Address complex engineering and user experience challenges, providing elegant and seamless solutions.
• Take ownership of web application features and areas that will impact business users.
• Collaborate with engineering team members to explore innovative solutions and share knowledge.
• Work closely with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements, and bug fixes.
• Partner with fellow engineers to write testable, reliable code and continuously deploy to production systems.
• Engage in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews.
• Deploy, monitor, and operate large-scale production systems distributed globally.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5+ years of applied experience.
• Strong foundation in Computer Science, with expertise in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• In-depth technical knowledge of responsive design and JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Ember, and Node.js.
• Proficient in web application development with a strong command of browser-side client technologies, including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, and object-oriented JavaScript.
• Expertise in software development principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.
• Experience with web technologies like Webpack, Superagent, Babel, Web Vitals, Redux Toolkit, Atomic CSS, Storybook, JSON, and REST APIs.
• Expertise in Web application CI/CD
• Expert knowledge of web application performance, stability, and debugging.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse, geographically dispersed teams.
• Strong communication skills, with a friendly and constructive approach under stress.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience with Cloud/Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Scrum, Squad, or similar agile development methodologies.
• Familiarity with test-driven development and unit/UI test frameworks such as Jest, Selenium, WebdriverIO, React Testing Library, Mock Service Worker, and Playwright is a plus.
• Recommend alternative approaches to complex problems and leverage new technologies to achieve objectives.