Sr. Software Engineer (Java/Springboot/Microservices)

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

U.S. Bank is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer for our Fleet Payments team who thrives in a product operating model—someone who can be a leader, think strategically, and get stuff done! Are you passionate about building high-value software and modernizing systems? Do you dream in Java, think in microservices, and have a growth mindset? If so, we want you to join our mission to transform how we build technology products that drive real customer value.

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

**This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**

Essential Responsibilities:

• 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

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Five to six years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/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

Location Expectations

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility