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Manager of Software Engineering - Technical & People Leadership

at J.P. Morgan

Mid LevelNo visa sponsorshipJavaScript

Posted 15 days ago

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Compensation: Not specified
City: Wilmington
Country: United States

Manage a team of 3-6 software engineers while providing hands-on technical leadership to build reporting applications for executive technology leadership. Work includes active development in React front-end, Python backend, and database schema/design/optimization, while setting team standards, coaching developers, and ensuring delivery aligned with business requirements. Collaborate with stakeholders, anticipate cross-team dependencies, and operate in an agile environment with CI/CD and automation practices.

Location: Wilmington, DE, United States

This is your chance to change the path of your career and guide multiple teams to success at one of the world's leading financial institutions.

As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within the Corporate Technology group, you manage day-to-day implementation activities by identifying and escalating issues and ensuring your team’s work adheres to standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices. This role will be a mix of managing a team of 3-6 engineers and hands-on tech leadership building an application that builds reports for executive technology leadership.

Job responsibilities

Actively contributes to development with
hands-on React front-end work, Python and backend database design, optimization, and troubleshooting.
Provides guidance to immediate team of software engineers on daily tasks and activities, including coaching junior developers via code reviews and pair programming.
Sets the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration.
Anticipates dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements.
Manages stakeholder relationships and the team’s work in accordance with standards, service level agreements, and business requirements.
Work in agile fashion with quick turnaround to business needs.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
Experience leading technology projects & managing technologists.
Demonstrated, hands-on expertise in React (components, hooks, state management, testing), Python and backend databases (schema design, SQL, indexing, query optimization; e.g., Oracle, AWS RDS)
Proficient in automation and continuous delivery methods
Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
Proven ability to mentor and guide junior developers, set coding standards, and elevate code quality across teams

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Experience working at code level, specifically in React front-end development and backend database design, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting
Knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
Experience in AWS.

Lead multiple teams, manage day-to-day implementation activities, and set overall guidance for team output, practices and collaboration

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