Lead Engineer – Software Systems in Irving, Texas.
About The Position
U.S. Bank is seeking the position of Lead Engineer – Software Systems in Irving, Texas. The Lead Engineer – Software Systems provides technical leadership for engineering initiatives and establishes strategic approaches for system development. The role serves as a technical expert to evaluate, recommend, and integrate new technologies and innovations into existing systems. Responsibilities include mentoring and coaching junior engineers on technical tasks, coding standards, and workflows, as well as designing, reviewing, and refining system architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and alignment with business needs. The position leads engineering teams and provides ongoing technical and strategic direction while collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment on requirements and deliverables. Duties also include analyzing and resolving complex system-level technical issues, improving and optimizing the software development lifecycle, and establishing engineering best practices, coding standards, and guidelines. The role develops and proposes long-term technical roadmaps and architectural plans and supports development activities by contributing to system design considerations for scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability. Position may allow working from home within a commuting distance of worksite location. Multiple Positions.
Requirements
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or Information Technology plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience leading development teams, designing and maintaining complex software systems, and contributing to system architecture.
- 5 years of experience with all of the following: leading development efforts, including strategy, interaction design, prototyping, and usability validation; designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, responsive, and accessible single-page applications (SPAs); using modern web technologies including HTML, CSS/SCSS, and JavaScript; collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define requirements and deliver user-facing features; mentoring junior engineers; contributing to system architecture design, technical planning, and architecture grooming; optimizing performance through efficient code, fewer requests, async processing, and CDN-based delivery with compression and lazy loading; ensuring cross-browser compatibility; supporting full-stack development with APIs; enhancing system scalability, reliability, and performance; troubleshooting complex production issues, including browser-specific, mobile-only, and race-condition–related problems; establishing engineering best practices within an SDLC environment; and all of the following: JavaScript, ReactJS, VueJS, NodeJS, Git, and CI/CD.
Responsibilities
- Provides technical leadership for engineering initiatives and establishes strategic approaches for system development.
- Serves as a technical expert to evaluate, recommend, and integrate new technologies and innovations into existing systems.
- Mentors and coaches junior engineers on technical tasks, coding standards, and workflows.
- Designs, reviews, and refines system architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and alignment with business needs.
- Leads engineering teams and provides ongoing technical and strategic direction.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment on requirements and deliverables.
- Analyzes and resolves complex system-level technical issues.
- Improves and optimizes the software development lifecycle.
- Establishes engineering best practices, coding standards, and guidelines.
- Develops and proposes long-term technical roadmaps and architectural plans.
- Supports development activities by contributing to system design considerations for scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Benefits
- 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
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401(k) contribution and pension
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
