Tech Lead - Sr. Software Engineer

Req ID: 77523 

Location: Tulsa -TUL, Dallas -DAL, Fayetteville -FAY, Houston -HOUS, Kansas City -KSCY, Lincoln -LNCL, Little Rock -LTLRK, Memphis- Memph, Oklahoma City -OKC, Overland Park -OVPK, St Louis -STLPL 

Areas of Interest: Software Development 

Pay Transparency Salary Range: Not Availble 

Application Deadline: 02/06/2026

BOK Financial Corporation Group includes BOKF, NA; BOK Financial Securities, Inc. and BOK Financial Private Wealth, Inc. BOKF, NA operates TransFund and Cavanal Hill Investment Management, Inc. BOKF, NA operates banking divisions: Bank of Albuquerque; Bank of Oklahoma; Bank of Texas and BOK Financial®.

Bonus Type

Discretionary

Summary

In this role, you’ll mentor the project team, share knowledge, and collaborate with the Solution Architect to determine project architecture. You’ll lead in developing projects, promoting best programming practices, and have influence over developers. Lastly, you’ll provide application support, develop and document applications, and maintain application documentation and configuration.

Job Description

As a Tech Lead Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on technical leader and key contributor in a cross-functional team with clear accountability for technical direction, and delivery execution. You’ll design, build, and operate Java Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs on AWS (as we migrate from on-prem), using event-driven architecture and data stores like SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis. You’ll drive execution, provide architectural leadership, champion operational excellence and mentor others by fostering a culture of ownership, learning and high software engineering standards.

Team Culture

Our mission is to empower our company, teammates, and customers through resilient, customer-centric technology. We leverage our technical expertise and deep business understanding to deliver impactful solutions.

 

Mindset
Ownership, customer obsession, growth mindset, think big — start small, bias for action, and relentless pursuit of engineering excellence.

 

Why Join Us
• Impact: Build platforms used across the business; modernize critical systems, development agentic-first solutions.
• Growth: Leadership development, career advancement, and cutting-edge tech adoption.
• Culture: Inclusive, collaborative, and innovation-driven.
• Career Paths: Multiple advancement opportunities available.
mission is to empower our company, teammates, and customers through resilient, customer-centric technology. We leverage our technical expertise and deep business understanding to deliver impactful solutions.

How You'll Spend Your Time

Modern Software Development
• Design & Build: Architect and implement Spring Boot microservices and RESTful APIs with best practices for domain-driven design, scalability, reliability, maintainability and provide technical leadership in the decomposition of legacy or monolithic systems into well-bounded, cloud-native services. 
• Event Driven Systems: Deliver features using event driven architecture (Kafka, SNS/SQS/Kinesis), including publish/subscribe patterns, idempotency, retries, and error handling.
• Data & Storage: Model schemas and access patterns for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis; optimize for correctness, performance, and cost.

 

Agentic AI–First Engineering
• Develop using AI assisted  workflows with tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q/Kiro, and Claude to accelerate coding, refactoring, documentation, and test generation.
• Leverage agentic patterns for multistep tasks such as feature scaffolding, modernization, dependency analysis, and CI/CD interactions—with appropriate human in-the loop (HITL) controls.
• Apply AI-assisted  PR review and security scanning, validating suggestions with engineering judgment and secure by design principles.
• Continuously evaluate and improve how AI tools are used across the SDLC to increase throughput, quality, and developer experience.
• Review and validate AI-generated outputs to ensure security, correctness and standards alignment.  

 

Quality, Delivery & Operations
• Quality Engineering: Own testing strategy—unit, integration, and contract tests—while enforcing CI quality gates.
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