FullStack Lead Software Engineer-React, Java

JPMorgan Chase - Palo Alto, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Palo Alto, CA

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About the position

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking sector, you will play a crucial role in an agile team focused on enhancing and delivering innovative technology products. This position emphasizes the development of customer-facing user interfaces and dashboards for payment systems, while also identifying opportunities for engineering improvements and mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches.
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems.
• 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.
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Designs and develops features on customer-facing user interfaces.
• Supports customer-facing portal in production.
• Mentors junior members of the team with engineering & front-end development.
• Builds infrastructure to improve release agility and quality.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 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). Working knowledge in Java or Python.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems.
• Expertise in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5.
• Experience using modern front-end tools such as React, Redux, SASS, webpack, jest, etc.