Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Full Stack Developer

Zions Bancorporation’s Enterprise Technology and Operations (ETO) team is transforming what it means to work for a financial institution. With a commitment to technology and innovation, we have been providing our community, clients and colleagues the best experience possible for over 150 years. Help us transform our workforce of the future, today.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Enterprise Technology team. The Software Engineer is responsible for developing innovative software solutions that empower our customers and align with our overarching strategic goals. This Software Engineer involves analyzing requirements, designing, debugging, testing, deploying, and maintaining high-performance software systems. Working collaboratively with product managers, developers, and cross-functional IT partners, you will delve into system flows, data usage, and work processes to recommend improvements, implement out-of-the-box or custom solutions, and support reliable business operations.

Responsibilities:

Develop, test, debug, and deploy innovative, high-performance software solutions based on comprehensive requirements analysis and collaboration with stakeholders and IT management.

Support and maintain various production systems, monitoring performance and reliability to ensure uninterrupted business operations.

Guide testing and configuration management processes, execute change and release management, and ensure source code integrity.

Conduct unit testing, feasibility assessments, and develop system documentation with clean, well-commented code.

Use AI coding agents productively and responsibly: review and understand generated code before committing it and flag anything you are not confident.

Assist with building small proof of concept examples or simple prototypes, under direction, to help the team test an idea's feasibility before it becomes a larger feature.

Participate actively in product design reviews, offering practical, creative ideas and technical solutions.

Collaborate closely with developers, IT partners, product managers, and customer service teams to enhance user experience and satisfy product goals.

Research, consider, and apply user insights, feedback, and usability metrics to inform design updates and revisions.

Maintain product test software, test environments, and demos used for training and onboarding purposes.

Ensure a comprehensive, secure, and disciplined approach to software engineering within the financial sector.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field and 1+ years of experience in software development, database technologies, version control systems, Dev Ops tools, cloud computing platforms, and microservices architecture. A combination and education and experience may meet qualifications.

Financial or banking services experience is a plus.

Basic knowledge of software development life cycles (SDLC), modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C#, or Python), and application servers (e.g., Web Sphere, Tomcat).Exposure to or interest in using AI coding assistants (e.g. Git Hub Copilot, ChatGPT) as part of a professional development workflow, paired with the judgment to verify their output rather than trust it blindly.

Familiarity with or genuine interest in learning, Google Cloud Platform (e.g. Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Cloud Run/GKE), deployment pipelines build and ship containers.

Basic awareness of common web security risks (e.g. XSS, SQL injection) or a demonstrated willingness to learn secure coding practices quickly.

Working knowledge on any of SQL, Postgres, MySQL, relational database management systems, data modeling concepts, and integrated application development…