Software Engineer III - Design Systems

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•Plano, TX

2d•$133,000 - $185,000

About The Position

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Senior Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within Consumer and Community Banking, you will play a pivotal role on an agile team dedicated to designing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products. You will help ensure these products are secure, stable, and scalable, supporting the firm's strategic business objectives. In this role, you will play a key part in advancing our front-end design system. You will design, build, and maintain high-quality, reusable, and accessible UI components that power experiences across the firm. You will collaborate closely with designers, accessibility specialists, and fellow engineers to translate design specifications into robust, production-ready components.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent formal training/certification
3+ years of applied software engineering experience.
Advanced hands-on experience building front-end applications and reusable component libraries with React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript.
Proficiency in modern front-end development, including component architecture, state management, and responsive, accessible UI implementation.
Strong command of CSS and modern styling approaches, including CSS preprocessors (e.g., Sass/LESS) and CSS-in-JS.
Hands-on experience building accessible components to WCAG standards, applying semantic HTML, ARIA roles, and correct keyboard interaction patterns.
Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding assistants, agentic/agent-based workflows) to enhance productivity, quality, and delivery speed.
Demonstrated ability to quickly learn, evaluate, and adopt emerging tools and workflows, adapting to a rapidly evolving AI-augmented engineering landscape.
Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SCRUM.
Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery (CD) methods.
Deep understanding of all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Nice To Haves

Experience developing and maintaining design systems, component libraries, or shared UI frameworks.
Familiarity with modern front-end design systems Storybook.
Experience with vanilla-extract or similar type-safe, zero-runtime CSS-in-JS styling libraries.
Hands-on experience authoring AI enablement of assets such as custom instructions, skills, and prompts, or integrating tools via the MCP.
Practical knowledge of web accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG, ARIA) and cross-browser compatibility.
DevOps experience supporting token repositories, build systems, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins or similar tools).
Practical experience with component architecture.

Responsibilities

Executes creative software solutions across component design, development, and technical troubleshooting, with the ability to think beyond conventional approaches to solve complex technical problems.
Develops secure, high-quality production code for reusable UI components; review and debug code written by others to ensure best practices, accessibility, and code quality.
Builds and maintains composable, and accessible front-end components, ensuring consistency, performance, and adherence to design and accessibility standards.
Leverages AI-assisted development tools and agentic workflows to accelerate component delivery, code review, testing, and documentation, while applying sound engineering judgment to validate and refine AI-generated output.
Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues, improving the overall operational stability and reliability of software applications, build pipelines, and design token repositories.
Champions communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness, adoption, and effective use of new and leading-edge technologies.
Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.