Sr React Developer - Equities - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · LONDON, LONDON, United Kingdom · Corporate Sector

Senior Lead Software Engineer for Equities Sales and Trading Technology at JPMorgan Chase in London. The role involves enhancing, building, and delivering technology products, providing technical guidance, developing secure code, and influencing product design and technical operations. Requires formal training/certification in software engineering with 5+ years of experience, hands-on experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability, advanced programming skills, and knowledge in technical disciplines like cloud, AI, or ML. Cloud-native experience and a background in Computer Science or related fields are also required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  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. Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  5. Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Skills

Required

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
  • 5+ years of applied experience
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
  • Practical cloud native experience
  • Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

Nice to have

  • Expertise in React 17+ and modern front-end development practices
  • Experience with AG Grid or similar advanced data grid libraries
  • Proven ability to optimize web applications for performance and responsiveness
  • Familiarity with handling high-frequency data updates in UI applications
  • Strong understanding of application profiling and tuning techniques
  • Knowledge of AI integration or cloud technologies, especially AWS
  • Experience working in fast-paced, agile environments within financial services

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of applied experience
  • Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
  • Practical cloud native experience