Lead Software Engineer – Backend

At U.S. Bank, we’re passionate about helping customers and the communities where we live and work. The fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country’s most respected, innovative and successful financial institutions.

Job Description

Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country’s most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We’re looking for people who want more than just a job – they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey.

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 DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities:
– 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.
– 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.

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

Preferred Skills/Experience
– Utilizes technical expertise and leadership skills to resolve issues, ensure product goals are met, and serve as a mentor to coach and support junior engineers to continue to raise the engineering bar across the organization
– Works to drive both high level and detailed technical designs, conducts technical reviews and define solution requirements and technical implementation approaches
– Defines the team’s roadmap in line with the company and technology vision
– Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
– Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
– Excellent communication, presentation, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills
– Proven collaboration and influencing skills

Benefits:

We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.