Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack React/Java - Risk Frameworks

Job description

As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Risk Technology space, you'll work in an agile team building production software across the full stack, with a frontend focus. You own code quality, contribute to technical direction, and work across React frontends and Java/Spring Boot services.

Job Responsibilities

Write, review, and debug secure production code across frontend and backend services. Design and build cloud-native, microservices-based applications with zero-downtime releases. Apply domain modeling to structure software for clarity, testability, and long-term maintainability. Identify recurring failure patterns and eliminate or automate their remediation. Lead communities of practice to share new techniques and raise engineering standards across the org.

Design for resilience

no single points of failure, scalable patterns, optimised data access. Contribute to a team culture where different perspectives improve the work. Work with stakeholders and clients to gather, challenge, and refine requirements before they become code. Required qualifications, skills, and capabilities Significant hands-on software engineering experience. Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React. Backend experience with Java and Spring Boot.

Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS, and a preprocessor such as Sass. Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing. Comfortable working in agile delivery (Scrum or Kanban). Able to solve complex design and functionality problems independently. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or equivalent), RESTful APIs, and distributed systems. Hands-on experience designing and building applications with SQL and NoSQL databases.

Preferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities Experience mentoring engineers and presenting technical work to stakeholders. Background in financial services or banking. AWS certification or equivalent cloud experience.