Software Engineering Manager

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

Focuses on technological solution delivery by guiding and inspiring strong coding practices and solid software design decisions among their team. Responsible for growing and mentoring engineers as it relates to technical skills and career development. Assists with cross-team strategic efforts, influencing decisions to achieve efficient delivery of business value. Understands cross-team technical roadmaps, advocating new product abilities based on technical strategy and constraints.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Six to eight years of relevant technical experience
- Five or more years of leading a software engineering team
 

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Strong people management skills including mentoring and coaching engineers of all skill levels 

• Responsible for application performance, complex APIs and integration across multiple applications

• Able to collaborate with partner engineering teams 

• Architecting and implementing high performing software applications. 

• Responsible for application performance, complex APIs and integration across multiple applications. 

• Strong understanding of test strategy across unit, integration, and end-to-end automation

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools to drive developer productivity 

• Experience working with geographically distributed engineering teams 

• Work cross functionally with Product, Design, and other partner teams to deliver well-engineered experiences that delight customers.  

• Thorough knowledge and understanding of business strategy and how the technical and engineering strategy aligns to this

• Ability to communicate with all parties involved in the product team (engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors, customers, etc.)

• Strong foundation in architecture and system design with hands-on understanding of modern enterprise platforms

• Proficiency in Java/Spring Boot and modern backend development practices

• Frontend fundamentals including HTML5, CSS, SASS, and responsive design principles

• Experience designing for resiliency, observability, and security in distributed systems

• Familiarity with deployment strategies (CI/CD, progressive rollout, blue-green, canary)

Location expectations 
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• 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

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all