Senior Lead Software Engineer - UI Developer, Equities Risk Management
JPMorganChase
Software Engineering, Product, Design
Jersey City, NJ, USA
Be an integral part of an agile team that's 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
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Build the next-generation real-time risk visualisation platform used by Equities traders globally. This is a hands-on senior IC role — you'll work directly with traders, ship high-performance UI over large datasets, and shape the frontend architecture of a platform replacing a much-loved fat client.