Lead Software Engineer, Back End

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

Overview

The U.S. Bank Spend Management Accounting team is looking for a well-rounded Lead Software Engineer with a track record of building delightful customer experiences at scale. We believe there’s a better way for businesses to manage and control expenses. If you are an extraordinary engineering leader who thrives in a fast-growing environment, and if you are equally passionate about technology, people, and thoughtfully crafted products, we’d love to talk to you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs
• Monolith & Microservices Architecture: Have good experience of working with monolith systems. Experience of microservices architectures to enhance system scalability, flexibility and reliability
• AWS Cloud Services: Leverage AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc)  for deploying and managing applications
• System Design & Architecture: Participate in and contribute to the design and architectural decisions of the backend systems to ensure alignment with business goals and technical requirements
• Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and low latency
• Building & Managing System Observability: Leverage Spunk, SignalFX or similar products to build & maintain systems observability by creating dashboards, alerts and runbooks
• Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable and well-documented code adhering to industry best practices and internal standards
• Collaboration: Work closely with front-end engineers, DevOps engineers, product managers and other stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions
• Testing & Debugging: Implement comprehensive test strategies including unit testing, integration testing to maintain & improve product quality and debug issues as they arise.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay updated with latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve the existing codebase and development processes.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience 
• Expertise in AWS, Java Spring, Backend Services Development, Event-Driven Architecture, Microservices & Monolith Applications development

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Demonstrated track record on leading projects as a lead backend engineer
• Experience leading software architecture design for complex distributed systems and applications.
• Skilled in designing modern event-driven architecture into the product and driving for the highest standards
• Expert in design patterns, software architecture principles, object-oriented programming, Java, Spring Framework, and persistence frameworks and technologies.
• Experience with Docker, RESTful web services, and asynchronous programming in microservices and other modern architecture.
• Experience with building enterprise software using cloud-based products/services
• Strong problem-solving skills, troubleshooting, and debugging skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to function in a demanding environment.
• Ability to grasp new product features early in their development cycle when documentation is often limited or unavailable.
• Expertise in creating schemas and writing efficient SQL queries on a relational database.
• Experience with software monitoring tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, Datadog, etc.
• Experience working in an agile development (Scrum) environment with a customer-centric mindset.
• Ability to work independently yet fully collaborate with remote teams, technical leadership, and architects at the company.
• Strong business understanding to be able to bridge technical and business priorities.
• Clear, concise, and effective verbal and written communicator with ability to explain and evangelize complex ideas clearly across org boundaries.

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