Senior Software Engineer

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

Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We’re looking for people who want more than just a job – they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey.

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.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Makes 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
• Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience working with Java applications based on Spring Boot
• Experience with JavaScript, Oracle database (SQL and PL/SQL), No-SQL, Windows, Linux, Shell scripting, Python
• Prefer additional experience with Spark/Scala, Cloud (Azure, AWS), AI/ML, GitHub, Co-Pilot
• Experience working with User Interface Build tools like Actimize Actone Designer
• Experience working in the financial industry domain
• Experience working in the Risk and Compliance domain (AML, Fraud)
• Experience working in a DevOps environment (Git/GitLab, CI/CD Pipelines)
• Experience developing Unit Tests (including automation and integration with CI systems - Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, Maven etc.)
• Experience in Agile Software Development.
• Ability to implement user interfaces against REST APIs 
• Ability to collaborate on all aspects of product development
• Technically proficient and able to define and fulfill solutions requirements for end user
• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers
• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills

Location Expectations

The role offers a hyb