Senior Software Engineer (Hogan API)

U.S. Bank • Hopkins, MN

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. U.S. Bank is seeking an Application Developer with design and development experience to contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives. The successful candidate will join a team of innovative developers responsible for maintaining and enhancing U.S. Bank’s Customer Information System (CIS) as well as the Hogan Online Delivery System (ODS) & Hogan Platform Automation Support (PAS) System. The candidate will work closely with our business partners to develop requirements, designs, and write technical specifications, designing or redesign complex mainframe processes within the Hogan CIS , ODS & PAS platforms and at times collaborate with other application development teams while simultaneously maintaining quality, security, and compliance. Successful candidates will exemplify U.S. Bank's ethical principles of uncompromising integrity, respect for others, accountability for decisions and actions, and good citizenship. Works alongside product engineering team. Responsible for designing, testing, developing, operating, and maintaining products, sometimes under the guidance of principal engineers. Strives to deliver work with the customer in mind and understands the value of what they’re building. Understands the organization’s strategy and how the engineering culture aligns to this. Recognizes how the product works and the overall purpose and impact of the product.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Five to six years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Hands on Mainframe development experience with Hogan COBOL, JCL, CICS, Json and Splunk, IMS Database, Gitlab, IDz/RDz (IBM Developer for zOS), Jira
• Strong experience with Application maintenance, design, architecture & System testing
• Experience in System development life cycle, IT standards, procedures, policies.
• Demonstrated experience in effective cross team interaction and collaboration , with both technical and business partner teams .
• Good verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy .
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Consistently writes production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors.
• Consistently considers best practice when designing services/APIs in accordance to agreed best practices and standards.
• Regularly designs code that fits with the overall architecture.
• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues located to a single service.
• Uses systematic debugging to diagnose cross service issues and is adept at using a range of tools to detect when there is an incident and raises this with stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Takes ownership of incidents which fall in their domain and may be involved in the resolution of an incident or aid others on resolving incidents.
• Understands and knows when to use different data structures.
• Understands when algorithms should be applied and the associated complexities.
• Helps others build their understanding of the applied algorithm and suggests improvements.
• Consistently creates reasonable sized code reviews that contain descriptions of changes and testing conducted.
• Assesses other code reviews with the lens of quality and value - code quality, acceptance criteria, business logic, test coverage and aligned to overall architecture.
• Highlights any issues with a code review that might result in release complications.
• Proactive in evaluating code reviews in the team and resolving open code reviews in a timely manner.
• Understands their team's testing approach and uses quality metrics to identify gaps.
• Works with their team to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid.
• Approaches engineering work with a security lens and actively looks for vulnerabilities both in the code and when providing code reviews.
• Has a holistic view on how the applications across more than one context integrate with each other.
• Is aware of the organization’s monitoring philosophy and skilled with the monitoring tools.
• Helps tune and change the monitoring on their team accordingly.
• Develops techniques on effective coaching strategies for different individuals.
• Seeks out mentoring opportunities specifically to increase knowledge in parts of the system that is not well understood.
• Supports and advocates others and provides tools to help them grow their understanding a technical topic.
• Actively participates and understands Scrum while developing a point of view on an effective software delivery process.
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for continuous integration and incremental delivery.
• Anticipates and communicates blockers, delays before they require escalation.
• Creates project proposals and designs that have considerable impact or touch multiple systems.
• Technical designs are clear, well thought out, and considers dependencies, failure states, maintainability, testability, and ease of support.
• Keeps business context in mind when proposing architectural decisions.
• Also considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior