Senior Software Engineer - API

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

• 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

• 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

• Five to six years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Strong experience in Java EE design and development

• hands-on experience in Microservices/API development using Java/Springboot

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

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

• Experience in NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB.

• Experience in Jenkins/Cloudbees, Apigee, Istio, 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.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

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 life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

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