Software Engineer 2 (Java, Springboot, React, Cloud)

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.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Champion modernization efforts—think Java, React, APIs, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and continuous delivery.

• Drive product discovery and experimentation to validate ideas before building.

• Keep close to the customer—understand their pain points, fuel innovation, and deliver delightful experiences.

• Promote engineering excellence through pairing, cross-training, and inner sourcing.

• 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

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience

• Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Expert level of Java v 17 or higher

• Strong experience in Spring Boot and other Java frameworks/libraries and Cloud API development

• Experience with JSP, React & NodeJS

• Deep understanding of working with, developing, and testing microservices/APIs and writing Junit tests with Mockito

• Experience with writing documentation for microservices/APIs

• DevOps and CI/CD: understanding and experience of setting them up.

• Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker

• Experience with on-prem cloud and app containerization

• Database experience: relational(DB2,Oracle, PostgreSQL) and non-relational(MongoDB)

• Experience creating architecture diagrams and using architecture tools

• Experience working with off-prem cloud solution such as AWS or Azure

• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices

• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills

• Effective Communication and Team collaboration skills

Location Expectations

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

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