Jonathan Melin
Software Engineering Manager
Software Engineering Manager with 10+ years across fintech, identity and access management, and enterprise software. Leads a team of front-end engineers building back-office web applications for staff at banks and credit unions. Combines a decade of hands-on engineering with five years teaching full-stack development to career-changing students.
Work Experience
Jack Henry (Remote)
Software Engineering Manager
Aug 2026 – PresentSupervisor
Apr 2026 – Jul 2026- Manage a team of six front-end engineers building back-office web applications for banks and credit unions.
- Stay hands-on in the codebase, delivering a comments-and-attachments capability that lets staff annotate a wire internally without altering the transmitted record.
- Own roadmap prioritization and workload allocation.
- Run 1:1s, performance feedback, and career development, including an ownership model where each engineer selects their own primary, secondary, and tertiary focus areas.
- Represent the team in leadership planning, coordinating cross-team priorities and dependencies.
Senior Software Engineer
Oct 2022 - Mar 2026- Rebuilt the email notification UI in the Jack Henry Wires web application, giving staff a clearer path to manage account-level notification settings.
- Joined the Wires front-end team on a succession path to lead it, building domain expertise in wire operations while delivering feature work and taking on team lead responsibilities ahead of the transition.
- Replaced manual phone-based identity verification with an in-app verification flow, cutting minutes off every call-in for support staff at client institutions.
- Built device-trust UI for Banno Digital Banking, letting financial institutions block activity from unrecognized devices until approved by the institution or an existing trusted device—closing a primary account-takeover vector.
Software Engineer
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022JumpCloud (Remote)
- Served on the UI Architecture Council, setting front-end patterns and application-level standards enforced across dozens of engineers.
- Built password reset with recovery email in the User Portal, letting users across 200,000+ organizations regain access when locked out of their primary email.
- Reworked the admin password reset flow and rebuilt MFA controls in the Admin Portal, simplifying MFA management for IT admins and laying groundwork for JumpCloud Go, the company's passwordless offering.
Front End Developer
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021SingleStone (Richmond, VA)
- Architected and built an internal web application for Capital One, consolidating policy management for teams across the organization.
- Developed admin and user-facing web apps for a Capital One skills framework initiative, letting managers and team members track skill progression together.
Web Developer
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018Market America/SHOP.COM (Greensboro, NC)
- Rebuilt Market America's flagship site as part of a company-wide initiative to unify brand and interaction patterns across web and mobile properties.
- Built a highly interactive product-customization feature for SHOP.COM, letting shoppers combine eighteen supplement products into a personalized formula.
Teaching
Instructor
Apr 2022 – Feb 2024DigitalCrafts · Remote (part-time)
Instructor & Teaching Assistant
Oct 2018 – Sep 2022Trilogy Education Services · Richmond, VA & Remote (part-time)
- Taught full-stack web development to career-changing students for five years, including university-partnered boot camps at Michigan State, UNC Charlotte, UConn, and the University of Richmond.
- Prepared and delivered curriculum, ran office hours, and mentored students through assignments and capstone projects; advanced from teaching assistant to lead instructor.
Education
Master of Arts, Bible Translation
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC
Research Papers:
A Case Against The Independent Imperatival Participle In 1 Peter 2:11-3:12
A Case For Ecclesiastes as Hortatory Discourse
Bachelor of Arts, Biblical Studies
Toccoa Falls College, Toccoa Falls, GA
Minor in Music
Full Stack Web Development & iOS Development Certificates
DigitalCrafts, Atlanta, GA
Technical Skills
Front-end
Tools & Platform
Leadership
Personal Interests
Biblical Languages
Linguistics
Theology
GeoGuessr
Golf
Drumming
Ancestry
Fitness
Word Games
Bonus content: Due to my background in software, my interest in linguistics, and my obsession with GeoGuessr, I built LangWhich, a language guessing game that helps you identify the scripts of the world. Try it out!