Engineering Manager at Jack Henry

Compensation

$115,000 – $160,000/yr

Setup: Remote
Location: Allen, Texas · Louisville, Kentucky · +6
Level: not_specified

Description

Jack Henry is seeking a highly technical and hands-on Engineering Manager to lead an API-first team focused on modernizing their architectural roadmap. The role involves migrating legacy applications from temporary VM environments to a native, containerized microservices ecosystem. This position requires balancing legacy maintenance while accelerating microservices modernization, overseeing project delivery, ensuring quality standards, and contributing to product roadmaps.

Required Skills

Development
Infrastructure
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
Lean
Cloud Environment

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5 years in development or infrastructure as an individual contributor and advanced to a high functioning Sr or Staff+ engineer, including managing a team or multiple teams in a fast paced, rapidly evolving environment.
5 years leveraging a framework that fits within the broader agile umbrella. e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean.
5 years working with infrastructure as code within a cloud environment.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Go (Golang): Familiarity with Go or a strong background in modern, statically typed languages optimized for cloud-native microservices.
Advanced Cloud & Security Practices: Hands-on familiarity with cloud security patterns, API Gateway architecture, and managing secure identity/authorization protocols (like OAuth/OIDC).
QA Automation Advocacy: Experience partnering with or leveling up Quality Assurance professionals into automated testing and regression framework development.
Legacy Decoupling Strategies: Direct exposure to phased migration strategies (such as the Strangler Fig pattern) to incrementally safely peel business logic away from monoliths or Virtual Machines.