AVP, Senior Applications Engineer, Digital Banking

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:  Forbright is a nationwide full-service bank and commercial lender focused on helping to build a brighter future for our clients and the communities we serve. Forbright is committed to exceptional client service by providing seamless, innovative personal banking services to depositors and creative financing solutions to visionary middle market businesses and investors in healthcare, technology, financial services, real estate, and other industries.  COMPANY CULTURE:  We are a dynamic, high energy, fun, and fast-paced organization that has an exciting growth trajectory, meaningful mission, and embedded responsible practices into our daily interactions. We offer our team members a culture of collaboration, inclusion, flexibility, recognition, and giving back. We look to hire individuals that are passionate about our mission, and who are motivated, customer and results-oriented, innovative, adaptable, and thoughtful. COMPANY MISSION:  We are a mission-driven institution. We operate a sound dynamic institution that is well capitalized, liquid, profitable and uses best practices to manage risk and assure compliance with laws and regulations. We use Forbright’s capital, capabilities, innovation, and expertise to help our clients succeed and contribute broadly to building a brighter future. 
JOB SUMMARY: The AVP, Senior Applications Engineer, Digital Banking is a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust software solutions across the organization. This role sets technical direction, mentors engineers, and collaborates with stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance systems. The Engineer drives architectural improvements, champions best practices, and ensures integration projects meet business and regulatory requirements.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical lead for complex software projects, setting standards for code quality, architecture, and best practices 
• Solution Design & Development: Design, develop, and maintain solutions across cloud and on-premises systems, leveraging AWS Cloud, Confluent Kafka, Node.js, React, Typescript, Postgres, and other modern technologies 
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with IT, Operations, Business Units, vendors, and partners to define integration requirements and deliver scalable solutions 
• Mentorship: Mentor and coach engineers on integration patterns, code reviews, troubleshooting, and professional growth 
• Architecture & Innovation: Drive the evolution of integration architecture and patterns; evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tools to improve integration efficiency and reliability 
• Compliance & Security: Ensure integration solutions meet security, compliance, and performance standards. 
• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to technical documentation and promote knowledge sharing within the team 
• Incident Response: Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for integration issues. 
• Continuous Improvement: Monitor and evaluate the performance of integration solutions, making recommendations for improvement as necessary 
• Perform other duties as assigned 

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required; Master’s Degree preferred 
• Minimum of 8 years of hands-on, full-stack software engineering experiencerequired 
• Deep expertise in AWS Cloud, Confluent Kafka, Node.js (or equivalents), and modern integration patterns (e.g., event-driven, microservices)  
• Expertise in at least one modern JavaScript framework (React, Angular, Svelte, etc) 
• Experience in financial services or regulated environments preferred 
• Proven track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and driving engineering excellence 
• Proven track record of delivering outcomes in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders 
• Strong analytical skills 
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver projects on time and within budget 
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure as code 
• Experience using observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, DataDog) 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)   
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills   
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail    
• Outstanding problem-solving and time management skills   
• Self-motivated, self-directed, and results-oriented