Frontend Senior Lead Software Engineer

Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Senior Lead Frontend Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Risk Technology team, you will be a key player in an agile team, tasked with designing and delivering secure, stable, and scalable market-leading technology products. Your role involves implementing critical technology solutions across various technical areas within different business functions to support the firm's business objectives. Our primary front-end technologies include JavaScript, Typescript, and React, which interface with a Spring Boot back-end and are deployed to Kubernetes-based platforms on both private and public clouds. A significant part of your role will be to ensure that our deployments, conducted via a build server, are efficient and well-controlled.
We primarily use Javascript, Typescript, and React as our main front-end technologies, interfacing with a Spring Boot back-end and deploying to Kubernetes-based platforms on both private and public cloud. We have a heavy focus on ensuring that our deployments, via a build server, are both efficient and well-controlled.
Job responsibilities

• Executes 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 closely with multiple teams to understand requirements, create solutions which meets business needs for the widest number of teams
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Continuously improves on system stability and efficiency
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Collaborate effectively with UX designers, refining and negotiating requirements to bridge gaps between design and development, ensuring optimal user experience and technical feasibility.
• Strategize and implement end-to-end (E2E) testing plans, with extensive experience in tools such as Cypress; apply efficient separation of concerns, debug and improve testing performance, and drive best practices in automated testing.
• Demonstrate strong domain knowledge in managing and scaling large monorepos, ensuring maintainability and code quality across teams.
• Apply expertise in module federation, Webpack, RSpack, or Vite to optimize front-end architecture and enable scalable, modular development.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive yet developer-friendly linting rules to enforce code quality and consistency across the codebase.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Solid development experience in Javascript, Typescript, React, or similar technologies
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
• Solid experience with Cloud deployment solutions such as Kubernetes

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Competency in HTML, CSS, SVG, ES6, TypeScript, React, Lodash, NodeJS
• Experience with build tools such as Nx, and Maven
• Familiarity with modern front-end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Proven ability to interface with UX designers and product teams to refine requirements and deliver seamless user experiences.
• Extensive experience in E2E testing, including strategy, implementation, debugging, and performance optimization with tools like Cypress.
• Strong domain knowledge in large monorepo management.
• Experience with module federation, Webpack, RSpack, or Vite.
• Expertise in setting up and maintaining comprehensive, developer-friendly lint rules for code quality enforcement.

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.