Senior Software Engineer (Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Microservices)

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.

** This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship **

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

• 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

• Five to six years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• API Gateways: Apigee, Service Mesh ISTIO,

• Logging, Alerting Tools: Splunk, ELK, Datadog

• Programming Languages: Java/J2EE, Springboot

• Web: SOAP, REST, XSD, JSON, XML, Apollo GraphQL

• Data Management / Event Streaming: Cassandra,  DB2, SQL Server, Event Streaming, Kafka,  NOSQL, MongoDB, Oracle, Postgres

• Operating System: Windows, Linux, zOS

• Information Security Vulnerability Management: Black Duck, Twistlock, Fortify, PRISMA

• DevSecOps CICD Pipelines:  Cloudbees Jenkins, Rancher

• Source Code Management: Gitlab

• Cloud: Azure, AWS, Microservices, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes

• Agile Tools: JIRA, JIRA Align, JIRA Dragonboat, Version One, Confluence

• Nice to have: TIBCO BWCE, zOS Connect, COBOL

Additional Experience:

• Has a complete understanding of a feature, the users impacted, the flows impacted and feature's purpose

• Focuses on the bigger picture, identifying and prioritizing with the aim to consider more than one domain in this analysis

• Creates project proposals and designs that have considerable impact or touch multiple systems

• Technical designs are clear, well thought out, and considers dependencies, failure states, maintainability, testability and ease of support

• Considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs

• Has a thorough understanding of the team's domain, how work in this domain relates to the team's objectives and deliverables and how it contributes to overall business strategy and how technical strategy maps to this

• Understands the organization's company strategy and h