Sofware Engineer - 2 (Full Stack Java + Oracle Database)

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

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

• Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Extensive experience designing, developing, and optimizing Oracle databases, with deep expertise in SQL and PL/SQL, including stored procedures, functions, packages, triggers, cursors, and advanced query tuning

• Strong background in Oracle performance optimization, including execution plan analysis, indexing strategies, partitioning, statistics management, and resolving high‑volume transactional and batch‑processing performance issues

• Proven expertise in database design and data modeling, including normalization, schema design, ER modeling, and managing large, complex datasets in enterprise environments

• Hands‑on experience supporting Java‑based applications, working closely with Spring Boot services to design efficient data access layers and optimize database interactions, React

• Experience with Hibernate/JPA, including ORM tuning, native SQL usage, transaction management, connection pooling, and resolving N+1 and performance‑related issues

• Strong experience designing and supporting RESTful APIs and microservices from a database perspective, ensuring scalable, secure, and performant data access

• Familiarity with ETL, data migration, and data synchronization, including batch jobs, data reconciliation, and ensuring data integrity across upstream and downstream systems

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and database DevOps, including schema versioning, automated deployments, rollback strategies, and tools such as Git, Maven/Gradle, Liquibase, or Flyway

• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with experience supporting cloud‑hosted Oracle databases, scalability considera