Manager of Software Engineering – Low-Latency Core Banking Application

Be an integral part of a team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver cutting-edge technology products.

JPMorgan’s Global Liquidity and Cash Management Technology team is seeking a highly motivated Manager of Software Engineering, where you'll lead a dynamic team in developing cutting-edge technology solutions for the Corporate Investment Bank’s Payments business. You'll play a pivotal role in building the next-generation low-latency wholesale banking platform, designed for global scale, supporting hundreds of millions of accounts and responding in milliseconds to thousands of requests every second. We seek a passionate technologist eager to learn, grow, and support their team.

As a technical lead, you will help drive the technical delivery by managing an agile team of motivated engineers with a reputation for rapidly delivering exciting and innovative capabilities. Day to day you will help to grow the technical capabilities of your team, through paired programming and code reviews, whilst contributing your own performant, thread-safe code to grow the system. 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.

This exciting role provides you with the opportunity to see the direct impact of your contributions on the liquidity business and receive client feedback from around the globe. While banking experience is not required, you must be a passionate and well-rounded technologist, eager to continuously learn and enhance your skills.

Job responsibilities
• Work closely with Product Owners, Solutions Analysts, Technical Architects and Senior Engineers to design the best technical design and approach for technical development.
• Manage the daily activities of the development team with an Agile scrum approach and instill best practices for software development and documentation, validating designs against requirements and delivering high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Assess compliance, risks, and vulnerabilities to ensure all systems and baselines are operationally sound, performant at scale, and exceed customer expectations.
• Design and develop high-performance, latency-sensitive code, incorporate security requirements and reviewing code written by team members using software engineering best practices.
• Write secure, high-quality code and automated tests.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by code.
• Drive architectural reviews, code reviews and business demos.
• Manage the ongoing development of the team, including recruitment, performance management, coaching, peer review and mentoring.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions.
• Ensure proper communication concerning changes in established milestones or challenges that may affect the outcome of a project's completion date.
• Provide out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
• Formal training or certification on enterprise software development concepts and advanced applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
• Excellent understanding of Java 17+ fundamentals and frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot), OO programming paradigms, multi-threading, messaging technologies, and computer networks.
• Experience in leading technology projects and line management or mentoring.
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, documentation, diagramming, and presentation skills, with experience working with globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
• Experience of working on distributed systems and 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).
• Hands-on practical experience in secure system design, application development, automated regression testing, performance profiling and operational stability
• 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
• Experience of low-latency programming techniques and technologies (e.g. Inter-Process Communication, Memory-Mapped Files and Ring Buffers).
• Hands on experience another statically compiled language like Golang, Rust or C++.
• Experience with gRPC and Google Protocol Buffers.
• Experience with caching technologies, e.g. Apache Ignite, GridGain, Hazelcast or Redis.
• Experience with infrastructure as code software, e.g. Terraform.
• Awareness of key architectural patterns/approaches, algorithms, data structures, cryptography, security protocols (e.g., TLS and OAuth/OIDC), secure system design and Threat Modelling.
• Certified Kubernetes and public cloud knowledge (e.g. CKAD and AWS certifications). Read more