
Senior Software Engineer – Backend
U.S. Bank
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Irving • Minnesota • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $119,765 - $140,900 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Be a lead engineer collaborating with product managers, designers, and agilists in a modern “quad” structure.
- Champion modernization efforts—think Java, React, APIs, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and continuous delivery.
- Drive product discovery and experimentation to validate ideas before building.
- Keep close to the customer—understand their pain points, fuel innovation, and deliver delightful experiences.
- Promote engineering excellence through pairing, cross-training, and inner sourcing.
- Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
- Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
- Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
- Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
- Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
- Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
- Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
- Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
- Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
- Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
- Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
- Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Five to six years of relevant experience
- Strong hands on experience with Java Spring Boot
- Experienced in building REST-API and Microservices from scratch
- Experienced with Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes, Istio
- Some experience with Open-source Streaming - Kafka
- Experienced with Open-source Databases - PostgreSQL, Cassandra
- Experience in working with Open-source Flow-based frameworks - Flink, NiFi/Airflow
- ReactJS for Web-development experience - good to have
- Effective problem-solving and analytical skills
- Experienced with native mobile application development
Benefits
- Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Basic term and optional term life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Pregnancy disability and parental leave
- 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
- Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
- Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
- Adoption assistance
- Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaSpring BootREST-APIMicroservicesDockerKubernetesKafkaPostgreSQLCassandraReactJS
Soft Skills
problem-solvinganalytical skillscollaborationinnovationcontinuous improvementcustomer focusfeedback applicationengineering excellencedesign decision makingprioritization
Certifications
Bachelor's degree