Lead Software Engineer – Engineering Management

Overview

As an Engineering Manager in JPMorgan Chase’s Infrastructure Platforms, Data Center Services, you lead a hands-on engineering team responsible for delivering resilient, scalable software. You’ll guide architecture and delivery through strong engineering practices while remaining close to code. You’ll collaborate with product, operations, and risk stakeholders to translate needs into actionable plans and ensure stability, incident readiness, and continuous improvement. You help build an inclusive culture focused on growth and psychological safety, shaping a high-performing team that supports enterprise-scale platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers, fostering inclusion and continuous improvement
• Own delivery commitments: plan work, manage capacity, track progress, remove blockers
• Define and enforce standards for code quality, testing, and automated delivery pipelines
• Contribute hands-on as a senior engineer across web UIs and backend services
• Partner with product and senior stakeholders to translate requirements into technical plans and measurable outcomes
• Lead agile rituals and continuously improve ways of working
• Oversee vendor-supported applications, ensuring delivery quality and knowledge transfer
• Own application stability and resiliency, coordinating incident response and remediation
• Maintain applications across cloud and virtual servers including patching and disaster recovery planning
• Strengthen risk and controls posture by collaborating with risk stakeholders to assess and remediate gaps
• Support hiring, onboarding, and skill development to build a high-performing team aligned to priorities

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Experience leading or managing engineers with coaching and performance management
• Proven ability to build high-performing teams in agile environments
• Hands-on engineering skills in React, Node.js with TypeScript, or Python
• Experience across the software development lifecycle (design, build, test, release, production support)
• Experience establishing engineering practices like coding standards, code reviews, and automated testing
• Practical experience with cloud deployments and virtual server hosting, including patching and capacity planning
• Experience overseeing vendor-delivered or vendor-supported applications
• Experience managing application resiliency and incident remediation
• Experience working in a regulated or controls-driven environment with risk assessment and controls remediation
• Strong communication skills to influence across engineering, product, operations, and leadership

• leadership with a focus on inclusion and psychological safety
• strong communicator and cross-functional collaborator
• ability to influence and align stakeholders
• React
• Node.js with TypeScript
• Python

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