Software Engineer 2 (backend)

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:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products

• Design, build, and maintain features end-to-end in the business banking platform.

• Building dashboards and digital products using Micro front end architecture principles.

• You would work with fellow Architects, Engineers to effectively plan and execute on new features with stability, scalability, testability, and performance in mind. 

•  You would ensure the technical designs are clear, well thought out, and considers dependencies, failure states, maintainability, testability and ease of support

•  You would contribute to the architecture of a complex online banking platform.  

• You would be working on migrating our microapps to Azure cloud platform.

• You would make 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. 

• Anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation. 

• You would ensure the delivery of a quality product.

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Java (Java EE / Java 8+) & Spring Boot expertise building scalable, enterprise‑grade services

• Strong experience designing RESTful APIs, with solid understanding of API security (OAuth, JWT) and microservices resilience

• Hands‑on cloud‑native development experience using Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP

• Proficient with Kubernetes, containers, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Rancher)

• Experience with API gateways & CI/CD tools such as Apigee, Jenkins, CloudBees, and Git-based workflows

• Strong data skills across RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MS SQL) and NoSQL platforms (MongoDB, Cassandra)

• Experience with event‑driven systems and streaming platforms like Apache Kafka (Spark a plus)

• Agile, product‑minded engineer with strong problem‑solving, collaboration, and communication skills; financial services experience a plus

Location expectations 
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term