Director of Software Eng — Java Microservices Leader

Next Frontier Capital; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

On-site health & wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Backup childcare

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Financial coaching

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a deeply technical Director of Software Engineering to lead the Equity Plan Services platform and collaborate with Business, Trading and Operations teams. You will design distributed systems, own production reliability, and drive architecture decisions across Spring Boot microservices, Kafka pipelines, and AWS infrastructure.

You will guide multi-department strategy for scalable cloud architecture, implement automated testing, and ensure secure, compliant delivery of

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts with 10+ years applied experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading technologists to manage complex items.

Responsibilities

• Directly manages multiple engineering domains with a strategic focus on microservices and cloud infrastructure.
• Sets and scales multi-department strategy for event-driven system design and cloud architecture.
• Establishes standards for microservices architecture, cloud deployment strategies, and automated testing.
• Applies knowledge of cloud and infrastructure tools to drive cross-domain integration.
• Provides leadership to engineering teams across platforms.
• Oversees operations across various business lines, aligning with strategic goals.
• Drives AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation with governance and security guardrails.
• Communicates with senior leaders to translate requirements into engineering solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Java programming

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Kafka

Communication

CI/CD

Architectural design

Python

Tools

Spring Boot

Kafka

AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3)

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a deeply technical Director of Software Engineering to lead the Equity Plan Services platform and collaborate with Business, Trading and Operations teams. You will design distributed systems, own production reliability, and drive architecture decisions across Spring Boot microservices, Kafka pipelines, and AWS infrastructure.

You will guide multi-department strategy for scalable cloud architecture, implement automated testing, and ensure secure, compliant delivery of