Manager of Software Engineering

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • New York, NY

6d • $156,750 - $215,000

About The Position

As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorganChase within Consumer and Community Banking’s Card Technology team, you lead multiple teams and manage day-to-day implementation activities. You identify and escalate issues and ensure the team’s work adheres to compliance standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices. You act as a senior solution architect for the delivery control plane, including environments, pipelines, promotion controls, quality gates, and release evidence. You translate ambiguous problems into practical architectures, validate designs through hands-on prototypes, and help teams adopt solutions with confidence.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience.
• Experience leading technology projects and managing technologists.
• Experience leading responsible adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and delivery tools across engineering teams, including defining review and validation practices, measuring outcomes, and ensuring secure data handling.
• Understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity, resiliency and security implications, and governance expectations; ability to coach engineers on compliant and effective usage.
• Proficiency in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Breadth across the technology landscape and ability to quickly assess unfamiliar designs, codebases, or production issues and identify key considerations.
• Experience reviewing and validating code, including reading, critiquing, and correcting human- and AI-generated code, and building working prototypes.
• Proven stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills, including influencing peer leaders and driving alignment without direct authority.
• Advanced proficiency with modern AI-assisted development, including practical experience with agents, MCP, skills, prompting, RAG, and memory applied to engineering and governance work.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with mainframe platforms, including the release, environment, and testing constraints they introduce into a modern delivery pipeline.
• Experience with Card platforms or comparable large-scale payments and transaction-processing systems.

Responsibilities

• Guide software engineers on daily tasks and activities, and influence engineers, architects, peer leaders, and control partners across teams to align on practical, adoptable platform designs.
• Set overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration.
• Lead adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices and SDLC/TLM automation to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational outcomes; set expectations for human validation, secure handling of inputs and outputs, and reusable patterns.
• Apply knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle toolchain capabilities, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation, to improve automation value and support capacity-unlock initiatives.
• Anticipate dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and team work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements.
• Remain hands-on at a senior engineering level by reviewing code, interpreting unfamiliar systems, validating AI-generated output, and building MVPs to de-risk major technical directions.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package, including base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
• Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation in cash and/or forfeitable equity.
• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support.
• Financial coaching.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed