Senior Engineering Manager — Scalable Banking Tech

JP Morgan Chase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

On-site wellness centers

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Columbus, OH is seeking a Sr. Manager of Software Engineering for Business Banking Technology.

You will own complex services, shape technical direction, and improve delivery across squads to create resilient platforms and excellent client experiences. Responsibilities include leading design across full-stack capabilities, implementing event-driven patterns with Kafka, and elevating CI/CD, testing, and release readiness.

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 in large-scale environments.
• 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, Elasticsearch).
• Experience designing resilient, highly available architectures with 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 and tuning performance.
• Improve observability with metrics, dashboards, logs, and alerts using standard tooling.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and coaching.
• Partner with product, operations, and engineering to align delivery plans and manage technical risk.
• Drive AI-assisted engineering practices with measurable validation standards.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

React

Angular

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

AWS

CI/CD

Security

Tools

Java 8+

Spring Boot

React

Angular

Kafka

SQL

NoSQL

AWS

Job description

JPMorganChase in Columbus, OH is seeking a Sr. Manager of Software Engineering for Business Banking Technology.

You will own complex services, shape technical direction, and improve delivery across squads to create resilient platforms and excellent client experiences. Responsibilities include leading design across full-stack capabilities, implementing event-driven patterns with Kafka, and elevating CI/CD, testing, and release readiness.