Senior Lead Software Engineer - React/javascript

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom · Commercial & Investment Bank

Senior Lead Software Engineer role at JPMorgan Chase within F&O Execution Technology, focusing on enhancing, building, and delivering market-leading technology products. The role involves designing scalable architectures, deploying solutions with a focus on stability and performance, and providing technical guidance. A key aspect is driving the adoption and governance of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while ensuring responsible AI use and validating AI outputs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
  2. Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
  3. Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
  4. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
  5. Lead projects independently and provide guidance to other members of the team.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in systems and technology, preferably with exposure to financial systems
  • 5+ years of experience coding in JavaScript / TypeScript
  • React framework
  • JEST & React testing libraries
  • CSS styling

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in STEM.
  • Exposure to financial industry, Future & Options is a plus.
  • FIX protocol and workflow understanding.
  • Experience with one or more extra programming language(s).
  • Webpack and Babel frameworks
  • Material UI and JSS
  • AG Grid

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
  • Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.