Job Description

Job Category: Software Engineering
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Behind every investment is a person with ambitions, motivations and values. While we know that every client is unique, they come to Nutmeg for the same reason: our straightforward and transparent approach to investing.
Nutmeg is a J.P. Morgan company offering award-winning investments, products and digital wealth management services to over 250,000 investors in the UK. We built the business from scratch, with constant innovation a core part of our ethos since the beginning. We aim to provide clients with the best digital investing experience, ensuring digital security and customer satisfaction - meaning you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Our team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about building quality software that has a big impact in a rapidly changing environment. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects.
Job Responsibilities:

• Work with the Product team to understand user's needs and follow an Agile SDLC to develop and deliver product features to the Nutmeg Webapp.

• Take ownership of tasks from the estimation stage right through until the release stage and post production

• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve existing or newly-identified prioritised defects

• Write tests for all code you deliver and adhere to best practices/standards, ensuring high-quality code

• Participate in code reviews, ensuring high code quality and continuous development and learning for yourself and your colleagues

• Be someone who enjoys knowledge sharing, who is keen to attend and participate in some of the many skill share sessions we regularly hold in the Web team and across the wider Engineering department.

• Propose/contribute/collaborate on Technical Initiatives - improving and evolving the existing codebase and toolset

• Be keen to ensure that we focus on solving the essence of the problem rather than merely dealing with the symptoms

• Consider Accessibility (WCAG), Security, Observability & Performance as part of all owned applications/deliverables.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• English working proficiency is a must, you will be working with the team in London

• Proven track record of building and maintaining customer-centric web applications/SPAs.

• Strong proficiency in React and its core principles

• Solid grasp of Web fundamentals:

• HTML5 (Semantics & Structure)

• CSS (Responsive Design, Specificity)

• JavaScript ES6

• General Networking (HTTP, IP & DNS, Caching)

• Experience with testing frameworks such as Jest, RTL, Cypress or Playwright

• Understanding of build tools such as Webpack, Vite, Parcel.

• Understanding of Pre-processors such as SASS, CSS Modules, JS Compilation.

• Understanding of CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins and Github Actions.

• Experience with monitoring and alerting in order to maintain a production application

• Good understanding of REST and what it means to work with APIs

• Good communication skills, you can work well within a delivery team and manage interactions with other parts of the organisation, such as Product and Operations

• Curious about new ways of working and open to different approaches and ideas.

• A passion for self-development and learning who keeps up to date with the latest Web/React trends and technologies.

• Proactive and willing to help others put forward ideas

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills- nice to haves

• Experience with Typescript, GraphQL or AWS

• Knowledge of other JavaScript frameworks like Angular, Vue, Next.js, Gatsby.

• Experience with feature flagging/AB testing

• Experience with Design systems (UI Development, White-labelling)

• Experience in the FinTech sector

• Show us your Github/Stack Overflow/app portfolio!

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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 for more information about requesting an accommodation.
About the Team: Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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