Lead Software Engineer - Frontend (React.js)

Lead Software Engineer - UI Developer (React, Micro-Frontend)

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Asset and Wealth Management, 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

• Architects and implements complex Micro-Frontend (MFE) solutions using React.js, TypeScript, and module federation
• Leads, mentors, and guides a team of UI developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, high code quality, and best practices.
• Collaborates with DevOps teams to deploy frontend applications in cloud-native environments (AWS), focusing on CDNs, caching, and performance.
•  Optimizes frontend performance for scalability, security, and responsiveness. Drive automated testing (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress) and code reviews.
• Works closely with UI/UX designers to translate prototypes into pixel-perfect code, and align with backend engineers on API contracts.
• Establishes and maintains CI/CD pipelines, ensuring secure and reliable deployments.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of intensive hands-on experience with React.
• Proven experience leading frontend teams.
• Extensive experience with MFE architecture (must-have).
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3/SASS.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native deployment (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and DevOps tools (Git, CI/CD, Jenkins, etc.).
• Deep understanding of performance optimization, code-splitting, and SSR/SSG.
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience