Lead Software Engineer – UX/React

January 15, 2026
£60000 - £60000
Urgent

Job Description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what’s possible and be involved in build a green field application.

As a Lead Software Engineer – UX/React at JPMorganChase within Finance Technology, youare 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

  • Participates in, design and develop scalable and resilient systems using ReactJS and Python to contribute to continual, iterative improvements for product teams.
  • Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
  • Creates secure and high-quality production ready UIusing React.
  • Develop and execute design/research strategies for complex projects and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas.
  • Diagram service flows and product features, design wireframes, and prototype interactions for key touchpoints as you lead end-to-end design initiatives within a specific domain.
  • Produces or contributes to architecture and design artifacts for applications while ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
  • Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
  • Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
  • Gain experience in application development, with a focus on creating efficient and user-friendly software.
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing and operational stability.
  • Advanced skills in designing and developing responsive and visually appealing user interfaces using React, Python, and CSS, ensuring a seamless user experience.
  • Able to design wireframes and understanding of Salt-Design System.
  • Experience with state management libraries (Redux)
  • Implement and maintain reusable code and libraries for future use, ensuring consistency and efficiency in UI development.
  • Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
  • Experience using testing frameworks e.g Playwright
  • Experience in building reusable components and implementing server-side rendering
  • Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience and certification in AWS and/or Databricks.
  • Proven experience in building and designing large-scale global software solutions.
  • Experience in Data Engineering, working with big data, data warehouses, and understanding data modelling; Data Mesh Architecture and building applications using Data Mesh Architecture.
  • Familiarity with orchestration tools such as MWAA.

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