Engineering Manager, Digital Banking Platforms

JP Morgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Columbus, OH, is seeking a Manager of Software Engineering for Business Banking Technology. The role leads complex full-stack delivery and shapes architecture across squads to build scalable digital tools for small businesses.

You will mentor engineers, drive modern practices, and collaborate with product, operations, and security teams to ensure reliable, secure, and fast solutions that power client experiences.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Advanced hands-on experience building microservices and APIs using Java 8+ and Spring Boot
• Strong full-stack engineering depth with modern web frameworks (React or Angular) and pragmatic API/UI design tradeoffs
• Proven experience building and operating event-driven systems with Kafka, including reliability patterns (retries, idempotency, ordering, and dead-letter queues)
• Solid database skills using SQL, including data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Experience with NoSQL data stores (e.g., Cassandra, DynamoDB, or Elasticsearch), and data modeling for scale and reliability
• Experience designing resilient, highly available architectures, including failure-mode analysis and secure engineering practices

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and delivery of complex full-stack capabilities across services and user experiences (Java and Spring Boot with React or Angular)
• Drive event-driven architecture patterns using Kafka, including idempotency, retries, ordering, schema evolution, and dead-letter queue handling
• Establish and continuously improve engineering practices, including automated testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, and release readiness
• Own production excellence by reducing incidents, improving root cause analysis prevention, tuning performance, and strengthening operational readiness
• Improve observability by defining actionable metrics, dashboards, logs, and alerts using industry-standard monitoring and telemetry tooling
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and technical coaching while influencing standards and reusable patterns across squads
• Partner across product, operations, and engineering teams to align delivery plans, manage technical risk, and deliver measurable outcomes
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes, while establishing measurable validation standards

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

React

Angular

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Automated testing

Observability

Education

Formal training or certification in software engineering

Tools

AWS

Cloud Foundry

CI/CD tooling

AI-assisted development tools

Job description

JPMorganChase in Columbus, OH, is seeking a Manager of Software Engineering for Business Banking Technology. The role leads complex full-stack delivery and shapes architecture across squads to build scalable digital tools for small businesses.

You will mentor engineers, drive modern practices, and collaborate with product, operations, and security teams to ensure reliable, secure, and fast solutions that power client experiences.