JPMorgan Manager Software Engineering - Java 

United States, New Jersey, Jersey City 

745766915

As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments team, you will be working with other talented engineers to solve business problems through innovation and engineering best practices. You will be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development life cycle and partner continuously with your many stakeholders daily to stay focused on common goals. You will work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our global customers. You will lead the team by providing architecture and technical guidance to build a next-generation payment processing platform to process real time, wallet and traditional payments.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment to drive the development of high-performance payment systems.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and adherence to timelines and budgets.
• Develop and implement technical strategies that leverage Java, Spring, AWS, and other technologies to enhance system performance and scalability.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product, operations, and other engineering teams, to ensure seamless integration and delivery of payment solutions.
• Establish and maintain best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment, ensuring the reliability and security
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks in low-latency, large-scale systems, implementing solutions to improve efficiency and throughput.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, encouraging the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to enhance team productivity and system capabilities.
• Manage team resources effectively, including hiring, training, and performance evaluations, to build a high-performing engineering team.
• Ensure that engineering solutions meet the needs of internal and external customers, delivering high-quality and customer-friendly E2E payment experiences.
• Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for the team members and prioritizes diverse representation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience with relevant hands-on development work using the microservices architecture and Java spring framework
• Strong experience in architecting and building low latency, high throughput enterprise Applications
• Experience in building and maintaining distributed systems that can handle high volumes of data and transactions, with a strong understanding of the trade-offs between consistency and availability
• Experience in building cloud native Applications for AWS
• Hand’s on experience in developing and deploying complex systems with high scalability requirements
• Hand’s on experience in performance tuning and optimization
• Experience with event-driven architecture and streaming platforms like Kafka
• Experience in building enterprise grade UI/UX using Angular/React
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to work in large, mission critical platforms

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Previous experience in building payment processing systems and protocols is a plus
• Experience in implementation of Distributed Caching - Advance knowledge of Gemfire/Redis/Hazelcast or any other caching solution is a plus