U.S. Bank

Senior Software Engineer – Backend

U.S. Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: IrvingMinnesotaTexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $119,765 - $140,900 per year

Job Level

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