Manager of Software Engineering - Design System Team

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 at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking - Digital Technology team, you will be responsible for managing a scrum team composed of full-stack and front-end developers dedicated to developing web-based tools and UI components. This role involves close collaboration with a product owner, agility lead, and other leadership members of the design system team, as well as active engagement with stakeholders. Your primary responsibility will be to oversee the operations of your development team. Additionally, you will work closely with designers, product managers, and quality assurance teams to ensure that implementations meet specifications.

Job responsibilities

• Provides guidance to immediate team of software engineers on daily tasks and activities
• Sets the overall guidance and expectations for team output, practices, and collaboration
• Anticipates dependencies with other teams to deliver products and applications in line with business requirements
• Manages stakeholder relationships and the team’s work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements
• Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for the team members and prioritizes diverse representation

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
• Extensive working experience working with popular front-end JavaScript frameworks, like React and Angular
• Knowledge and experience in ES6+
• Understanding of modern design patterns used in JavaScript
• Extensive experience working with HTML5
• Highly skilled working with CSS and popular pre-compilers, like Sass and LESS, or CSS-in-JS solutions, such as Vanilla Extract
• Skilled with popular build tools, like Webpack
• Working knowledge in TDD and modern testing frameworks that support it, like Mocha and Jest
• Strong understanding of source control and experience working with modern tools that support it, such as Git
• Understanding of database solutions, such as MongoDB or PostreSQL
• Understanding UX design concepts like responsive web design (RWD)

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledge and experience in TypeScript
• Knowledge and experience writing code for accessibility
• Knowledge and experience in building web UI components
• Knowledge and experience using data visualization 3rd-party libraries such as D3