Lead Software Engineer - Design Engineering (Design System)

Job Description
Join JPMorganChase's business accelerator team, a hub of innovation and customer-centric product development. We're a new B2B organisation, part of a venture focused on creating engaging digital experiences. We're seeking a design engineer with a deep understanding of system thinking and advanced front-end development. You'll be part of a diverse team, contributing to design systems and ensuring a balance of interaction design, accessibility, and visual UI design.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the business accelerator, you will be at the heart of new product development. We are looking for intellectually curious team members with a demonstrated passion for creating compelling B2B products and services for our customers. This role requires an extensive understanding of system thinking and advanced front-end development, and experience in building and contributing to design systems. A balanced understanding of interaction design, accessibility and visual UI design is a must. You will work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team of designers, user researchers, product and engineers creating products and services for our customers.
Job responsibilities:

• Lead the creation of new design system requirements and features, and explore how to improve the design system in collaboration with the team.
• Lead Design System Governance, facilitate peer code reviews and QAs. Conducting regular quality assurance checks to ensure the reliability and stability of the system. Oversight of contribution and priorities of deliverables.
• Contribute and maintain the design system: design tokens, variables, Figma - ensuring they are aligned with the visual identity.
• Collaborate closely with designers to integrate new tokens and maintain consistency.
• Lead design system documentation to create clear and accessible documentation for developers, designers, and other stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with design leadership to ensure the design system aligns with the design vision and strategy.
• Work closely with other teams and stakeholders to identify gaps and opportunities for improvements.
• Bridging the gap between design and engineering and how design systems can contribute to the broader business objectives.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on systems thinking and front-end development concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Solid understanding of various design systems and experience in both building and contributing to design systems
• Evidence of successful development and delivery of web products and the ability to frame and solve challenging problems
• Expertise in JavaScript, HTML, CSS and the fundamentals of web development for building and integrating APIs into client facing applications
• Experience in modern web technologies including React and TypeScript with strong understanding of coding standards, web development and continuous integration best practices, accessibility and design system governance.
• Collaborative Experience: A team player who thrives in working in cross-functional teams, driving things forward with successful outcomes.
• Strong Communication: Excellent communication and organizational skills to work effectively within a fast-paced and collaborative team and being able to communicate complex software architecture to non-engineering people.
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience or related field or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience with Figma variables and how it enhances the design process and the overall efficiency of the team.
• Experience of using data and customer insights to inform design decisions

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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 Corporate Technology team relies on smart, driven people like you to develop applications and provide tech support for all our corporate functions across our network. Your efforts will touch lives all over the financial spectrum and across all our divisions: Global Finance, Corporate Treasury, Risk Management, Human Resources, Compliance, Legal, and within the Corporate Administrative Office. You'll be part of a team specifically built to meet and exceed our evolving technology needs, as well as our technology controls agenda.