Lead Software Engineer; Java, Boot, React & Cloud

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.

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

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

• Hands on working experience developing highly maintainable, extensible, and testable distributed systems
• Hands on development experience with Node, NPM and React framework, producing hygiene and secure front-end code.
• Proven ability to implement user interfaces against REST APIs
• Hands on experience in Microservices/API development using Java/Spring boot
• Experience in developing Cloud native applications in Azure or AWS is preferred.
• Experience on designing low latency applications designed for scalability and reliability with high throughput.
• Experience with open-source technologies like Java, Spring boot, Kafka, etc. and containerization.
• Experience in Jenkins/Cloud bees, Gitlab, Apigee, Istio, Kubernetes, Rancher.
• Experience using modern and functional programming styles
• Familiarity with source control management best practices
• Good to have AI experience.
• Ability to analyze the bigger picture, identifying and prioritizing with the aim to consider more than one domain within an analysis
• Preferred skill securing app and containers using certificates

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.

• 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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