Manager of Software Engineering - Sr AWS/Full Stack Java Developer

Job Description

This is your chance to change the path of your career and guide multiple teams to success at one of the world's leading financial institutions.

As a Manager of Software Engineering (Full Stack, React) at JPMorganChase within Consumer and Community Banking Digital Technology, you will lead a team building and evolving customer-facing web experiences and the supporting APIs that power critical digital journeys. You will combine hands-on technical leadership with people leadership to raise engineering quality, delivery predictability, and operational resilience.

Job responsibilities

• Lead and coach a full-stack engineering team delivering React-based web experiences and supporting APIs, setting clear technical direction and strong engineering standards
• Drive front-end architecture and implementation quality for modern single-page applications, including accessibility, performance, and secure-by-design patterns
• Partner with product, design, and partner engineering teams to shape solution scope, milestones, and delivery plans that maximize customer and business outcomes
• Establish and enforce modern testing and quality practices across the stack, including unit, integration, and end-to-end automation and release readiness
• Oversee API and service design to enable scalable front-end experiences, including consistency, observability, resiliency, and clear interface contracts
• Improve reliability and developer productivity by reducing recurring issues, modernizing delivery pipelines, and strengthening operational hygiene and on-call readiness
• Leads team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and SDLC/TLM automation to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes, while setting expectations for human validation, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and consistent use of reusable patterns across teams
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation and support capacity unlock initiatives

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
• Demonstrated experience leading full-stack delivery with strong depth in front-end engineering (React and TypeScript), including component design, state management, routing, and performance optimization
• Hands-on experience building and operating web APIs (for example Java and Spring), including secure design, versioning strategies, and reliability considerations in distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of web application security and secure coding practices (for example cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, session management, content security policy) and dependency and vulnerability management
• Proven ability to set and sustain engineering excellence through code review, test strategy, and continuous integration and continuous delivery practices (including feature flags and rollback strategies)
• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and operating applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including identity and access management, networking fundamentals, logging/monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Experience leading responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools across engineering teams, including defining ways of working (review/validation expectations), measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure handling of data
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, resiliency/security implications, and governance expectations; ability to coach engineers on compliant and effective usage

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience designing and scaling reusable front-end platforms, design systems, or shared component libraries across multiple teams
• Experience with AWS-native architectures for web applications (for example content delivery, API routing, container or serverless deployment patterns)
• Experience with GraphQL and modern build and packaging tooling ecosystems
• Experience driving modernization efforts such as large-scale refactoring, testing uplift, or migration to newer front-end patterns and frameworks
• Experience working in highly regulated environments with strong engineering controls, auditability, and reliability expectations

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs. 

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.  We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process. 

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our  FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

About the Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We’re proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions – all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.