Lead Software Engineer - Frontend / UI - Athens

Job Description
Are you ready to push the boundaries of what's possible in technology? At JPMorgan Chase, you'll have the chance to make a real impact while working with talented colleagues on market-leading products. We value your creativity, drive, and commitment to excellence. Here, your skills will grow, and your ideas will shape the future of financial technology. Join us and be part of a team that values diversity, opportunity, and respect.
As a Lead Software Engineer in the Vida team, you will play a key role in delivering reliable, secure, and scalable technology solutions within the Corporate and Investment Bank Markets Business. You will work in an agile environment, collaborating with talented professionals to enhance and build innovative products. Your expertise will help drive technical excellence and operational stability. You will contribute to a culture that values inclusion, opportunity, and continuous learning.
Job Responsibilities:

• Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others
• Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve operational stability
• Evaluate architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems
• Drive awareness and adoption of new and leading-edge technologies across Software Engineering communities
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Commercial experience developing user interfaces with hands-on experience in React
• Practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile)
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience in developing, debugging, and automated testing (e.g., React Testing Library, Cypress) in a commercial setting
• Experience collaborating with backend technology teams in designing scalable and reusable RESTful APIs

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Exposure to frontend libraries such as ag-grid, highcharts, redux, and Typescript
• Experience with performance tuning complex user interfaces
• Experience working within Investment Bank or Finance Technology

If you have a passion for technology and want to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to join our award-winning Vida team. Here, your contributions are valued, and your growth is supported in a collaborative, innovative environment.
Greek male nationals must have completed or have no obligatory military service obligations
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
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.