Lead Software Engineer UI-React/Java

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Banking Payments Technology, you play a crucial role in an agile team that is dedicated to improving, creating, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a key technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing vital technology solutions across numerous technical areas within various business functions to support the firm's business goals.

Job responsibilities

• Lead the strategy for our UI estate, driving best practices on UX, architecture and integration with our Back end components
• Execute creative software solutions, design, develop and innovate across a full stack suite of applications.
• Think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Engage directly with our Product Owners and stakeholders to drive the delivery of novel solutions
• Mentor and guide the next generation of software engineers
• Develop secure high-quality production code, and collaborate with peers to review and debug code
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Lead evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcome-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Investigate and triage new technologies that can provide benefit to the platform, engage with senior partners to introduce these to the stack
• Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Add 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
• Advanced knowledge on front end technologies - Typescript, AngularJS, React, Vite, Jest, D3 and related libraries/Frameworks
• Strong knowledge of back end technologies - Java, Spring
• Hands-on experience managing a book of work independently and engaging directly with stakeholders and product owners
• Hands-on experience with UX best practices and practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (Or CKAD certification)
• Knowledge with MQ, Kafka