Ui Lead Software Engineer - React

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase · Banking · GLASGOW, LANARKSHIRE, United Kingdom · Commercial & Investment Bank

Lead Software Engineer with a focus on UI development using React within the financial services industry. The role involves designing, developing, and troubleshooting market-leading technology products, emphasizing security, stability, and scalability in an agile environment. Responsibilities include executing creative software solutions, writing and reviewing production code, identifying automation opportunities, leading evaluation sessions for new technologies, and contributing to communities of practice.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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
  2. Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  3. Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
  4. 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
  5. Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies

Skills

Required

  • React
  • UI development
  • System design
  • Application development
  • Testing
  • Operational stability
  • Programming languages
  • Automation
  • Continuous delivery
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • Application Resiliency
  • Security
  • Cloud
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Mobile
  • Financial services industry IT systems
  • Cloud native
  • Automated testing
  • RESTful APIs

Nice to have

  • ag-grid
  • highcharts
  • redux
  • Typescript
  • Performance tuning complex UIs
  • Investment Bank / Finance Technology
  • Team leading experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Significant commercial experience developing UI’s with hands-on applied experience developing in React
  • Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
  • Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
  • 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
  • Experience in developing, debugging and automated testing (e.g. react testing library / cypress) within a commercial setting
  • Experience collaborating with backend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs