Sr. Software Engineer - Golang

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, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   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. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead to help lead the design and evolution of our user management, authentication, and authorization platform. This role combines hands-on backend engineering with technical leadership. You will guide architecture, establish secure API and access-control patterns, mentor engineers, and partner across teams to build scalable, reliable identity services in Go on AWS.

***This position is not available for Visa Sponsorship***

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of backend services for user management, authentication, authorization, and related identity workflows.

• Define and evolve architecture for secure, scalable APIs and microservices in Go.

• Establish patterns for authorization enforcement, token validation, tenant isolation, audit logging, and privileged access controls.

• Guide technical decisions, design reviews, and tradeoff discussions across security, reliability, performance, and delivery.

• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and technical coaching.

• Partner with product, security, and platform teams to shape the roadmap and execution for identity-related capabilities.

• Improve engineering quality through testing strategy, operational readiness, observability, and incident response practices.

• Support modernization of legacy components and migrations toward standardized identity patterns and platforms.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

• Five to six years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Software engineering experience, including significant experience building backend or platform services.
• Hands-on Golang experience in production systems.
• Technical Design: Proven experience leading technical design and delivery for distributed systems or platform services.
• Authentication and Authorization: Strong knowledge of authentication and authorization for modern APIs, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token validation, claims/scopes, and access-control enforcement.
• Authorization Models: Experience designing authorization models such as RBAC, ABAC, or policy-based access control, with attention to least privilege and auditability.
• Identity and User Lifecycle: Experience building user lifecycle and identity-related capabilities such as provisioning, profile management, entitlements, roles, or delegated/admin access.
• System Design: Strong system design skills with emphasis on reliability, scalability, security, and observability.
• Cloud and Delivery: Experience with AWS, containerized services, and CI/CD for secure service delivery.
• Mentoring and Communication: Strong code review, mentoring, and cross-team communication skills.
• Technical Leadership: Experience making technical tradeoffs, driving decisions, and leading teams t