Software Engineer II - Front End, React, Typescript - Associate

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within Investment Banking, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Transaction Development is a centralised hub that generates buyer intelligence on Mid-Cap sponsors for JPM sell-sides, by leveraging deep knowledge of Sponsor investment strategies. In order to execute at scale, a newly created technology team is embarking on a multi-year journey to provide enhanced digital capabilities to enable Transaction Development to take full advantage of the deep client relationships we have across GB and scaling proprietary idea generation.

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.
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for 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.
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Translates UI/UX designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
• Develops and maintains responsive front-end applications using React.js.
• Builds and consumes APIs using GraphQL for efficient data fetching.
• Writes clean, maintainable, and testable code with attention to scalability.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience in front end development such as React and Typescript.
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages.
• 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, Application Resiliency, and Security.
• Practical cloud native experience.
• Proven experience developing production-ready applications with React.
• Strong understanding of GraphQL (queries, mutations, subscriptions, schema design).
• Solid grasp of TypeScript/ES6+, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience with component libraries and design systems (e.g. Material UI) and using build tools and bundlers (e.g. Webpack, Vite).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience with AWS cloud services (e.g. EC2, S3, IAM, Cloudwatch).
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Playwright).