Senior Java Platform Director — Cloud Engineering

Socket.dev; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase, a global financial leader, seeks a deeply technical Director of Software Engineering to lead the Equity Plan Services platform. You will own production reliability, design distributed systems, and drive architecture decisions across Spring Boot microservices, Kafka pipelines, and AWS infrastructure at scale.

You will collaborate with Business, Trading, and Operations to translate requirements into robust engineering solutions, while guiding multi-department teams to achieve speed,

Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• 5+ years leading technologists and cross-functional teams.
• Expert backend engineering in Java and/or Python with strong data modeling.
• Deep AWS experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3).
• Hands-on Kafka experience for stream processing and design.

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, cloud deployment, and automated testing.
• Drives cross-domain integration and responsible AI-enabled engineering initiatives.
• Interfaces with senior leaders to align technical objectives with business goals.

Skills

Java Spring Boot

Python

SQL/NoSQL design

Distributed systems

CI/CD

AWS

Kafka

Communication

Leadership

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Spring Boot

Job description

JPMorganChase, a global financial leader, seeks a deeply technical Director of Software Engineering to lead the Equity Plan Services platform. You will own production reliability, design distributed systems, and drive architecture decisions across Spring Boot microservices, Kafka pipelines, and AWS infrastructure at scale.

You will collaborate with Business, Trading, and Operations to translate requirements into robust engineering solutions, while guiding multi-department teams to achieve speed,