About the position
You're ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career - and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you. As a Software Engineer II - JavaScript, Design System at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking - Global Banking Platform and Shared Services, 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.
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.
- Create 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 and stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
- Work closely with other teams and stakeholders to identify gaps and opportunities for improvements.
- Debug and troubleshoot software defects and issues to ensure smooth operation of applications.
- Execute standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting.
- Write secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance.
- Design, develop, code, and troubleshoot with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications.
- Learn and apply system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience.
- 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.
- Excellent Communication: Excellent communication and organizational skills to work effectively within a fast-paced and collaborative team and being able to communicate complex software architecture to non-engineering people.
- Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
- Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages.
- Demonstrable ability to code in one or more languages.
- Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle.
- Exposure to agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
- Emerging 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.
Benefits
- 401k
- health_insurance
- dental_insurance
- vision_insurance
- life_insurance
- paid_holidays
- paid_volunteer_time
- tuition_reimbursement
- professional_development
