Software Engineer III - Design Systems

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JOB DESCRIPTION

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.

 
Job 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. 

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills  

• 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). 
  
  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills  

• 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. 

ABOUT US

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.