Senior Software Engineer (Full stack)

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

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

• 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

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

• Five to six years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

Backend / API / Microservices

• Strong Hands-on experience in Microservices and API development using Java/Spring Boot

• Expert-level hands-on experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Hibernate/JPA

• Expert-level hands-on experience in RESTful API design and development

• Expert-level hands-on experience in Microservices architecture

• Experience with REST and GraphQL APIs

Frontend (React / JavaScript)

• Strong hands-on experience in React.js and its core principles

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

• Prior experience with popular React workflows (e.g., Flux, Redux)

• Experience with AngularJS (plus)

Cloud / Cloud-Native

• Experience in cloud-native development on Azure, AWS

• Experience with streaming technologies like Apache Kafka and/or Apache Spark

Databases

• Experience with RDBMS such as PostgreSQL and/or MS SQL Server

• Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and/or MongoDB

DevOps / Platform / Tooling

• Experience with Jenkins / CloudBees

• Experience with Apigee

• Experience with Kubernetes and Rancher

Security / API Protection

• Knowledge of OAuth, JWT, and API security best practices

Domain / Product Understanding

• Thorough understanding of a feature’s purpose, user impact, and end-to-end flows

• Exposure to financial or enterprise-grade applications

Ways of Working & Collaboration

• Adept with Agile SDLC and DevOps principles

• Ability to communicate processes and results with product team stakeholders (engineers, product owner, scrum master, third-party vendors)

General Engineering Strengths

• Strong analytical and debugging skills

• Ability to work independently and mentor junior developers

• Strong organizational and time mana