Senior Lead Software Engineer - React/JavaScript

As a Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within F&O Execution 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. We support the #1 ranked execution business, and you will be expected to drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions. You will need to apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Working within a team of experienced technologists, you will participate in all aspects of e-trading development life cycle, from designing a scalable architecture to deployment with a focus on stability and performance.

Job Responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
• Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
• Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test acceleration, release readiness, incident/root-cause analysis), while establishing measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of proven patterns and automation within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
• Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.
• Lead projects independently and provide guidance to other members of the team.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 8+ years of experience in systems and technology, preferably with exposure to financial systems
• 5+ years of experience coding in JavaScript / TypeScript
• React framework
• Demonstrated experience leading effective use of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted software development tools within the work environment (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security
• Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching senior engineers/leads on compliant usage patterns and controls.
• JEST & React testing libraries
• CSS styling

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM.
• Exposure to financial industry, Future & Options is a plus.
• FIX protocol and workflow understanding.
• Experience with one or more extra programming language(s).
• Webpack and Babel frameworks
• Material UI and JSS
• AG Grid