Senior Software Engineer - CIAM and Fraud (Remote)

First Citizens Bank•Raleigh, NC

12h•Remote

About The Position

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): AZ, FL, GA, NC, and TX. At First Citizens Bank we’re in the midst of a bold digital transformation—simplifying, consolidating, and modernizing the way we serve our customers. We’re evolving toward a foundational North Star Architecture that enables us to scale smarter, move faster, and deliver experiences that truly differentiate us in the market. This is not business-as-usual. We’re reimagining our digital banking platform from the ground up—rethinking how channels connect, how technology supports growth, and how teams collaborate to deliver with speed and purpose. Few get the chance to help shape something this foundational. This is your opportunity to be part of a once-in-a-career journey, building what’s next while staying grounded in the impact we create today. If you’re energized by transformation, passionate about software engineering, and ready to help lay the technical bedrock for a digital-first future—we want to talk to you. We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join our CIAM and Fraud delivery team, which provides technology solutions and integration services to support our Commercial and Personal and Business Banking Digital Platforms. The ideal candidate should have the necessary skills and experience to provide technical guidance, estimation of efforts, understanding and deciding upon the optimal technology solution to achieve the desired business needs, day to day application support, should be able to navigate differing levels of gray/unknowns, and have excellent communication skills with other IT management levels, individual contributors and business stakeholders. They must be able to move at a rapid rate of execution to deliver requests and take advantage of any opportunities as they present themselves and navigate through any resource constraints. They must have both the short- and long-term strategic view when deciding on the best technical approach. They must be able to develop code and effectively oversee distributed development team members.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance

Nice To Haves

8+ years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
Experience in banking or regulated financial services
Strong design & development experience with Enterprise Technologies: Java, JMS, JDBC, Web development, Transactions, WS-, JVM, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMX, JTA, Spring, JUnit, Hibernate, Python.
Understanding of fraud prevention, risk-based authentication, and secure digital journeys.
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML
Experience of Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience of Okta CIAM preferred

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, primary responsibility will be towards the development and support of CIAM and Fraud solutions/projects.
The Senior Software engineer will be responsible for all software aspects within the team including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and supporting them.
Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
Oversee proactive maintenance on our existing Iaas/SaaS and on premise applications 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.
Strong experience in supporting Business critical/ complex applications.
Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
Nice to have technical lead experience for small to medium sized projects.
Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
Demonstrated expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations and be able to optimize the use of database level processing.
Empathy with developers. Innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail.
Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore.
Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you.