Lead Front-end Engineer

We are building out the Wholesale Credit Risk Core Platform which will be the software platform for all of Wholesale Credit Risk Technology, providing standardized best-in class deployment strategies, common services and components, controls, testing practices, alerting, and monitoring.

As a Lead Front end Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Risk Technology team, you will be a key player in an agile team, tasked with designing and delivering secure, stable, and scalable market leading technology products. Your role involves implementing critical technology solutions across various technical areas within different business functions to support the firm's business objectives. Our primary front end technologies include Javascript, Typescript, and React, which interface with a Spring Boot back end and are deployed to Kubernetes based platforms on both private and public clouds. A significant part of your role will be to ensure that our deployments, conducted via a build server, are efficient and well controlled.

We primarily use Javascript, Typescript, and React as our main front end technologies, interfacing with a Spring Boot back end and deploying to Kubernetes based platforms on both private and public cloud. We have a heavy focus on ensuring that our deployments, via a build server, are both efficient and well controlled.

Job responsibilities

• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Works closely with multiple teams to understand requirements, create solutions which meets business needs for the widest number of teams
• Creates secure and high quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Continuously improves on system stability and efficiency
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds 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
• Hands on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Solid development experience in Javascript, Typescript, React, or similar technologies
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
• Solid experience with Cloud deployment solutions such as Kubernetes

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Competency in HTML, CSS, SVG, ES6, TypeScript, React, Lodash, NodeJS
• Experience with build tools such as Nx, and Maven
• Familiarity with modern front end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies