Lead Software Engineer - Java (Remote)

First Citizens Bank•Austin, TX

3d•Remote

About The Position

This is a remote role open for multiple markets across the United States. We are looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to join our growing Corporate Credit Card delivery team, which provides technology solutions and integration services in the areas of Corporate Credit Cards, Credit Card Risk Underwriting, Credit Card Portfolio Management, and Merchant Services. The team is highly engaged and is driving a new custom-developed platform and implementing automated testing on all newly developed projects. This role offers an opportunity to work in an exciting space where you can dig into the details with other developers and the business, sharpen your technical skills, and design solutions for problems that don’t yet have answers. We are looking for people who have a passion for development and leading teams. The ideal candidate is a seasoned software developer with a history of operating in a large enterprise environment who has designed and led the implementation of medium to large-sized systems. Banking experience is preferred, but not necessary. This individual would have tangible examples of how they have led development teams to successful deployments, coached and mentored senior developers, and have driven an enterprise-level design of a system(s). They will also be able to clearly communicate and express complex ideas not only with tech leads and team members, but also business product owners, as well as external teams, while establishing a working relationship built on trust through delivery.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
Advanced knowledge and experience with Java 11+
Advanced knowledge and experience with Standard Design Patterns such as Factories, Command, Facade, Adapter, and more.
Advanced knowledge and experience with OOD/OOA
Advanced knowledge and experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
Advanced knowledge and experience with REST and APIs
Advanced knowledge and experience with Unit Test and Mocking frameworks
Advanced knowledge and experience with git
Advanced knowledge and experience with Postman
Advanced knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Advanced knowledge and experience with Scrum and Agile
Advanced knowledge and experience with wikis

Nice To Haves

Banking experience is preferred
Intermediate to Strong experience designing or modifying modern microservice based systems
Advanced interpersonal skills including communication and negotiation
Automation Testing Framework Development
React UI Development
Gitlab Pipeline Development

Responsibilities

Responsible for all software aspects within the domain including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and support.
Partner with the business and architects to design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
Lead multiple tech leads who oversee SCRUM teams within the domain providing coaching, and an escalation path for troubleshooting.
Drives domain-wide change initiatives improving quality, speed, and throughput of the shop.
Oversee proactive maintenance on our existing Iaas/SaaS and on premise applications within the Digital, Cards, Risk, and Merchant Services to ensure our mission critical systems remain stable, are able to scale as our business grows, and remain fit-for-purpose.
Coordinate and assist with troubleshooting of code defects, data errors and configuration problems to determine the origin of application error.
Support Business critical/ complex applications.
Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
Show expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations and be able to optimize the use of database level processing.
Demonstrate empathy with developers and possess an innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail.
Build elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
Always work to improve oneself and constructively support the team around them.