Lead Software Engineer; Front-End Engineer

Lead Software Engineer (Front-End Engineer)

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.

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 Dev Ops principles.

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, domain‑driven architectures leveraging DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, and functional programming principles.
• Develop and maintain high-performance backend services using Node.js and Type Script, ensuring business correctness, reliability, and idempotent operations.
• Build modern, responsive web applications using React and Tan Stack, optimized for performance, scalability, and offline‑first user experiences.
• Architect and deliver Progressive Web Applications (PWA) using Service Workers and Workbox to enable offline functionality and background synchronization.
• Design, develop, and integrate RESTful and GraphQL APIs aligned to business capabilities rather than data models.
• Implement robust event‑driven architectures, including background job processing and distributed workflow orchestration.
• Build and manage data synchronization protocols for distributed, intermittently connected systems, ensuring consistency and resilience.
• Design and manage both client‑side and server‑side data persistence, including IndexedDB/Dexie, SQLite, and PostgreSQL.
• Ensure data integrity through idempotency, conflict resolution, and reconciliation strategies.
• Deploy and manage cloud-native solutions on AWS, including IAM, EKS, S3, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, and Cognito.
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with product, design, security, and compliance teams to ensure alignment with business and regulatory requirements.
• Write clean, maintainable, well‑tested code and drive engineering excellence through best practices, code reviews, and mentorship.

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Six to eight years of relevant experience.

• Expertise in Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) and Hexagonal / Clean Architecture.
• Strong backend development experience with Node.js and Type Script.
• Proficiency in modern frontend development using React and Tan Stack.
• Experience building Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and offline‑first applications (Service Workers, Workbox).
• Deep knowledge of API design (REST and GraphQL) and scalable service integration.
• Hands‑on experience with event‑driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Strong background in data modeling and persistence (PostgreSQL, IndexedDB/Dexie, SQLite) with focus on idempotency and data consistency.
• Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS (EKS, S3, SQS, SNS, IAM, Cognito, API Gateway).
• Experience building or integrating machine learning models, vector databases, embeddings, or RAG (Retrieval‑Augmented Generation) pipelines.

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.

• 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…