Software Engineer Backend​/API​/Microservices

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, taking responsibility for software artifacts that adhere to U.S. Bank standards to ensure minimal impact on the customer experience. The role requires proficiency with the agile software development lifecycle and Dev Ops principles.

• Design, develop, test, operate and maintain products.
• Take full stack ownership by consistently writing production‑ready and testable code.
• Create optimal designs that adhere to architectural best practices, considering scalability, reliability and performance of systems and contexts affected.
• Perform analysis on failures, propose design changes and encourage operational improvements.
• Make sound design and coding decisions that keep customer experience in the forefront.
• Take feedback from code reviews and apply changes to meet standards.
• Conduct code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures.
• Ensure all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices.
• Exhibit relentless focus on software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards.
• Embrace emerging technology opportunities and contribute to best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation.
• Contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Review tasks critically, ensuring proper prioritization and sizing for incremental delivery; anticipate and communicate blockers and delays before escalation.

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Three to five years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience in Java EE design and development.
• Hands‑on experience in Microservices/API development using Java/Spring Boot.
• Experience in streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Spark.
• Experience with No
  
  SQL databases like Cassandra or Mongo
  
  DB.
• Experience working on React.js projects.
• Familiarity with React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux).
• Familiarity with contemporary EcmaScript specifications.
• Experience in cloud‑native development in Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Thorough understanding of features, impacted users, flows and feature purpose.
• Proficiency with agile software development lifecycle and Dev Ops principles.
• Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team.
• Will be required to work from a U.S. Bank location at least three (3) days per week.

• 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.

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E‑Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E‑Verify program is an Internet‑based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E‑Verify program.

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