What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Software Engineer (UI Developer Lead) position at JPMorgan Chase?
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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate Technology, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead the definition, design, and development of major new features for both current and future products, ensuring timely completion.
- Conduct code reviews with peers, fostering a collaborative environment where learning and contribution are mutual.
- Address complex engineering and user experience challenges, providing elegant and seamless solutions.
- Take ownership of web application features and areas that will impact business users.
- Collaborate with engineering team members to explore innovative solutions and share knowledge.
- Work closely with user experience designers, product managers, and other engineers to deliver new features, enhancements, platform improvements, and bug fixes.
- Partner with fellow engineers to write testable, reliable code and continuously deploy to production systems.
- Engage in a culture of learning through design discussions and code reviews.
- Deploy, monitor, and operate large-scale production systems distributed globally.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 5 years of applied experience.
- Strong foundation in Computer Science, with expertise in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- In-depth technical knowledge of responsive design and JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular, Ember, and Node.js.
- Proficient in web application development with a strong command of browser-side client technologies, including AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, and object-oriented JavaScript.
- Expertise in software development principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration, and deployment architecture.
- Experience with web technologies like Webpack, Superagent, Babel, Web Vitals, Redux Toolkit, Atomic CSS, Storybook, JSON, and REST APIs.
- Expertise in Web application CI/CD
- Expert knowledge of web application performance, stability, and debugging.
- Ability to work effectively with diverse, geographically dispersed teams.
- Strong communication skills, with a friendly and constructive approach under stress.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Experience with Cloud/Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with Scrum, Squad, or similar agile development methodologies.
- Familiarity with test-driven development and unit/UI test frameworks such as Jest, Selenium, WebdriverIO, React Testing Library, Mock Service Worker, and Playwright is a plus.
- Recommend alternative approaches to complex problems and leverage new technologies to achieve objectives.
