Lead Full-Stack Java / AWS Software Engineer - Branch Money Movement
U.S. BankAbout the role
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
Responsibilities
Architecture, Modernization, and Cloud Strategy
- Lead the architecture, design, and modernization of enterprise applications that support high-volume transaction processing, operational workflows, customer servicing capabilities, and critical business operations.
- Drive cloud adoption and technology transformation using Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, microservices, and modern engineering practices.
- Define long-term architecture direction, engineering roadmaps, modernization strategies, and cloud adoption plans that support enterprise technology transformation.
- Lead migration of legacy applications to scalable, resilient, secure, and cloud-ready platforms while reducing technical debt and improving maintainability.
Engineering Delivery and Technical Execution
- Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs, microservices, and event-driven applications using Java, Spring Boot, and distributed system architectures.
- Perform hands-on software development, solution design, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production support for business-critical applications.
- Lead integration efforts across enterprise systems and vendor platforms while promoting reusable services, API-first design principles, and scalable technology solutions.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and establish modernization strategies that improve developer productivity, scalability, security, and operational effectiveness.
Standards, Reliability, and Operational Excellence
- Provide technical leadership on application architecture, engineering standards, cloud strategy, modernization roadmaps, and software development best practices.
- Define and enforce engineering standards, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD frameworks, and Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across development teams.
- Drive adoption of observability, monitoring, automation, resiliency, and performance engineering capabilities to improve platform stability, operational efficiency, and service availability.
Collaboration and Technical Leadership
- Partner closely with business, product, architecture, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams to deliver innovative technology solutions that improve customer and employee experiences.
- Provide technical mentorship, guidance, and enablement to software engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Six to eight years of relevant experience
Experience Should Include
- 10+ years of Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and distributed architectures.
- VERY strong money movement experience, preferably for branches
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, cloud-native platforms (ideally AWS, Azure is a good 2nd place), and large-scale application modernization.
- Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and messaging technologies such as Kafka
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