Manager of Software Engineering - Java/DevOps/AWS

JPMorganChase•Plano, TX

About The Position

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Asset and Wealth Management - Asset and Wealth Management Technology & Operations team, you will be an integral part of an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner.

Requirements

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
8+ years of software development experience.
5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems with large data volumes and real-time distribution.
Solid Java proficiency with a strong willingness to code hands-on.
Practical understanding of CI/CD, DevOps toolchains, and agile, test-driven delivery.
Hands-on experience with reactive, non-blocking, streaming Java; microservices; domain-driven design; and cloud technologies.
Experience with: Caching: Redis, GemFire, or Apache Ignite Messaging/streaming: Kafka, IBM MQ
Working knowledge of microservices, REST APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, and event-driven architectures.

Nice To Haves

Experience with the Spring ecosystem and AWS cloud services.
Familiarity with trading systems; exposure to the FIX protocol is a plus.
Ability to solve complex, mission-critical problems with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.
Continuous learner and early adopter of emerging technologies and methodologies.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineers to design, build, and deploy applications aligned with business and functional requirements.
Contribute to Java-based microservices using streaming, non-blocking, and reactive programming paradigms; write production-quality code.
Work with Kafka, IBM MQ, Kubernetes (K8s), Redis, Amazon MSK, and AWS services to deliver scalable, efficient systems.
Support domain-driven design adoption and participate in architectural discussions.
Contribute to technical documentation and service APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI), ensuring strong logging, auditability, security, and monitoring.
Participate in API design sessions and help select appropriate design patterns and integration approaches.
Engage in code reviews; promote TDD/BDD practices to ensure maintainability and quality.
Assist in demonstrating service scalability and resilience using mock frameworks, performance testing, and related tools.
Lead communities of practice across Software Engineering to promote awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.