Manager of Software Engineering

Manager of Software Engineering 

As a Manager of Software Engineering in Asset and Wealth Management, you serve in a leadership role by providing technical coaching and advisory for multiple technical teams, as well as anticipate the needs and potential dependencies of other functions within the firm. As an expert in your field, your insights influence budget and technical considerations to advance operational efficiencies and functionalities.

Job responsibilities

• Manage a software engineering team that designs, implements, and maintains front-end and back-end applications, services, libraries, and frameworks
• Full-stack design and development for financial software 
• Optimize application for maximum speed, reliability and scalability.  
• Follow and promote Agile practices including Scrum, Lean, BDD, and Continuous Delivery 
• Research new technologies, identify and learn best practice, adapt quickly, and provide technical guidance across the organization. Promoting excellent user experience and system performance by supporting SRE practices 
• Work with multiple globally distributed teams to deliver end-to-end solution across regions. Mentoring junior resources on best coding practices 
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from Wealth Managers and Product Specialist 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven track record of technical leadership experience, 10+ years of software engineering experience. Proven track record of hands-on software development experience 
• Must possess excellent analytical, problem solving, & decision-making skills. 
• Strong computer science fundamentals such as algorithms, data structures, multithreading, object-oriented development, distributed applications, client-server architecture 
• Strong experience in building performant, scalable and reliable web applications 
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS development fluency with 6+ years’ experience. Experience with libraries like ReactJS and building applications with reusable UI components 
• Full stack architectural understanding, Excellent knowledge of Java technologies including core Java, Spring Framework, Experience with unit and integration tools and techniques including JUnit, mocking and test-driven development 
• Cloud-Native development experience, experience in high availability development and architectural practices, relational database development skills including SQL and data modelling

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• ReactJS developer fluency with 5+ years’ experience, Familiar with HTML5 runtimes like Electron, User interface design experience developing user-facing software, Experience with building Progress Web Applications (PWA)
• Familiar with distributed system patterns and libraries like Spring Cloud, Experience with large complex projects with distributed development teams.
• Hybrid Mobile App development experience, experience with Kafka and RabbitMQ, Experience with NoSQL databases 

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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.