Sr. Software Engineer (Payment Integrations)

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

• 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

• Expert level hands-on experience in JavaScript / TypeScript / React.

• Expert level hands-on experience in Node.js for backend development.

• Experience with REST/GraphQL APIs. React and Shopify Polaris for UI development. React.js and its core principles

• Hands‑on experience with PHP (7.x/8.x+) and WordPress, including custom theme and plugin development, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.

• Hands-on experience building shopping cart payment plugins or integrations is a plus

• Experience in Cloud native development in Azure, AWS or GCP is preferred. 

• Experience in streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, Spark is preferred. 

• Experience with RDBMS like PostgreSQL, and/or MS SQL

• Experience in NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB.

• Prior experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

• Experience in Jenkins/Cloud bees, Apigee, Kubernetes, Rancher. 

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

• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles 

• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, p