Job Description

As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Global Liquidity and Cash Management Technology team, you will help drive the technical delivery by making significant technical contributions as key member of a team with a reputation for rapidly delivering exciting and innovative capabilities. Our systems manage client liquidity in real-time, supporting cash demands and building a next-generation core wholesale banking platform designed for global scale and rapid response. Day to day you will write your own performant, secure and thread-safe code and help your team grow their technical capabilities, through paired programming and code reviews. You will collaborate with colleagues from Product, Architecture, Infrastructure and Engineering to develop elegant and efficient technical designs that deliver new client features, whilst achieving stringent non-functional requirements for security, performance and availability.

Job responsibilities

• Designs and develops robust, high-performance, latency-sensitive code, incorporate security requirements and reviewing code written by team members using software engineering best practices.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing software engineering team whilst promoting an innovative culture.
• Responsible for the on-going career development of the team, including day-to-day line management, mentoring, coaching and recruitment.
• Writes secure, high-quality code and automated tests.
• Works closely with Product Owners, Solutions Analysts, Technical Architects and Senior Engineers to design the best technical design and approach for technical development.
• Translates business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.
• Helps refine the technical aspects of epics in collaboration with the Solutions Analysts.
• Translates business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by code.
• Drives architectural reviews, code reviews and business demos.
• Assesses compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performant at scale, and exceed customer expectations.
• Provide out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Excellent understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals and frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot), OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies, and computer networks.
• Experience of low-latency programming techniques and technologies (e.g. Inter-Process Communication, Memory-Mapped Files and Ring Buffers).
• Experience with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers.
• Experience of working on distributed systems and detailed knowledge of distributed systems design patterns.
• Detailed knowledge of relational database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL and CockroachDB), database resiliency, recoverability, scalability, and security.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and distributed messaging technologies ( Kafka).
• Experience with diagramming software (e.g., Lucid, Draw.io, Visio) and technical writing.
• Passion for technical innovation and staying up to date with emerging technologies.
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle and agile methodologies.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands on experience another statically compiled language like Rust, GoLang or C++.
• Experience with infrastructure as code software, e.g. Terraform.

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 FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.