Senior Lead Software Engineer UI Developer, Equities Risk Management

Be an integral part of an agile team thats constantly pushing the envelope to enhance build and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Equities Risk Management Team you are 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams contractors and vendors
• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Drives decisions that influence the product design application functionality and technical operations and processes
• Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks tools and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
• Adds to the team culture of diversity opportunity inclusion and respect
• Design and deliver high-performance React interfaces over large-scale real-time datasets replacing an established fat client platform used by traders across global trading desks
• Work directly with front-office traders to understand requirements often inferring detailed specifications from existing tools and workflows rather than formal briefs and iterating rapidly on feedback
• Collaborate closely with the backend services team and external data platform vendors to integrate bleeding-edge data delivery technologies into the frontend stack

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design application development testing and operational stability
• Advanced proficiency in React and TypeScript with a track record of building production applications against high-performance low-latency requirements
• Strong experience with enterprise data grid frameworks (e.g. AG Grid) including virtualisation server-side row models and rendering optimisation over large datasets
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Demonstrated experience working directly with demanding time-poor end users translating informal requirements and reference implementations into precise consistent UI solutions
• Experience in Computer Science Computer Engineering Mathematics or a related technical field
• Background in financial services particularly trading floor technology equities or risk management platforms
• Experience with enterprise design systems such as Salt Design System or similar component libraries with a focus on consistency and usability over novelty

• Experience migrating users from legacy desktop/fat-client applications to modern web platforms with sensitivity to performance parity expectations
• Familiarity with real-time data streaming architectures and integration with data platforms such as DeepHaven KDB or similar
• Practical use of AI tooling (e.g. Copilot Claude) in development workflows to accelerate delivery reverse-engineer existing UX or generate specifications from reference applications
• Experience mentoring or coaching developers transitioning from backend to frontend development