UI Lead Software Engineer

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As a UI Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Engineering Platforms and Integrated Experience (EPiX), your role is pivotal in an agile team that focuses on improving, constructing, and delivering top-tier technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Your technical expertise will be crucial to the development of the Integrated Engineer’s Portal (IEP), a vital technology platform that facilitates the firm's software development on a global level.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative 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 with engineering leadership across the organization to align our architectural goals
• 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 
• Collaborates with our User Experience team on designing new interfaces and developing tooling that allows for efficient design and engineering workflows
• Demonstrates an advanced working knowledge of one or more programming languages including JavaScript 
• Works with technical stakeholders to solve at architectural problems with wide-reaching scope, and demonstrates familiarity with cloud-native micro-service and micro-frontend architectures

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience. In addition, demonstrate coaching and mentoring experience. . 
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability 
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods 
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Practical experience supporting other engineers with technical documentation 
• Practical experience with web service development experience with technologies such as Node.js or Spring Boot
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrable experience with component-based UI frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, etc)
• Advanced understanding of open web standards and technologies (HTML, DOM, CSS, etc)
• A strong understanding of inclusive UI development and web accessibility practices

• Experience collaborating with product and user experience professionals in a cross-functional team
• Experience supporting software products for technologists
• Hand-on experience with modern JavaScript library publication and bundling tools
• Hands-on experience with React, preferably also within TypeScript projects