Software Engineer III - JavaScript, Design System

JPMorgan Chase • Palo Alto, CA

117d • $133,000 - $185,000

About The Position

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Global Banking Platform and Shared Service team, you will be at the heart of new product development. We are looking for intellectually curious team members with a demonstrated passion for creating compelling investment and commercial banking client centric products and services for our customers. This role requires an extensive understanding of system thinking and advanced front-end development, and experience in building and contributing to design systems. A balanced understanding of interaction design, accessibility and visual UI design is a must. You will work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team of designers, user researchers, product and engineers creating products and services for our customers. JPMorgan Chase's global banking team is the hub of innovation and customer-centric product development. We are part of a venture focused on creating engaging digital experiences. We're seeking a design engineer with a deep understanding of system thinking and advanced front-end development. You'll be part of a diverse team, contributing to design systems and ensuring a balance of interaction design, accessibility, and visual UI design.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
• Solid understanding of various design systems and experience in both building and contributing to design systems.
• Evidence of successful development and delivery of web products and the ability to frame and solve challenging problems.
• Expertise in JavaScript, HTML, CSS and the fundamentals of web development for building and integrating APIs into client facing applications.
• Experience in modern web technologies including React and TypeScript with strong understanding of coding standards, web development and continuous integration best practices, accessibility and design system governance.
• 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.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with building a design system library from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Contribute and maintain the design system: design tokens, variables, Figma - ensuring they are aligned with the visual identity.
• Collaborate closely with designers to integrate new tokens and maintain consistency.
• Lead design system documentation to create clear and accessible documentation for developers, designers, and other stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with design leadership to ensure the design system aligns with the design vision and strategy.
• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Create secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development.
• Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems.
• Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.

Benefits

• 401k
• health_insurance
• dental_insurance
• vision_insurance
• life_insurance
• disability_insurance
• paid_holidays
• paid_volunteer_time
• tuition_reimbursement
• professional_development

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree