Sr. Software Engineer

M&T Bank•Buffalo, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Work independently and within the boundaries of the approved Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to process, design, and develop applications to solve business needs and minimize risks to the Bank by writing clean and resilient code. Regularly review pull requests, provide feedback, and execute on the change management of the request. Author organized, clean, efficient, and secure source code at an advanced level in a minimum of one programming language to be verified by a lead software engineer and apply knowledge of appropriate data structure and algorithms to solve business problems. Utilize source code management tools to manage and deploy code/ applications and ensure compliance with SDLC policies and support merge conflict resolution. Independently analyze and critique technical and business requirements to ensure completeness, accuracy, and feasibility. Collaborate, document, and communicate technical implementation details clearly and concisely with other teams on dependent requirements as needed. Conduct code reviews, providing constructive feedback on code quality and improvements to team members. Contribute to conversations with business or technical stakeholders and teams regarding the architecture of their applications. Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management. Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand. Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any), or a related technical field plus three (3) years of experience in the job offered or as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, IT Consultant, or related occupation.
Associate’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering (any), or a related technical field plus five (5) years of experience in the job offered or as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, IT Consultant, or related occupation.
Minimum of three (3) years of experience in working with application development using Java, Spring boot, SQL Server, and APIs.
Minimum of three (3) years of experience in designing, development, documenting, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, deployment and production support of multiple applications.
Minimum of three (3) years of experience in working with CI/CD pipeline design and deployment using GitLab, ServiceNow.
Minimum of three (3) years of experience in developing and maintaining multiple application integrations.
Minimum of three (3) years of experience in working with Unix or Linux and windows server.
Minimum of three (3) years of experience in scoping, planning, refining stories and tasks following Agile methodology and using tools such as JIRA.

Responsibilities

Process, design, and develop applications to solve business needs and minimize risks to the Bank by writing clean and resilient code.
Review pull requests, provide feedback, and execute on the change management of the request.
Author organized, clean, efficient, and secure source code at an advanced level in a minimum of one programming language.
Apply knowledge of appropriate data structure and algorithms to solve business problems.
Utilize source code management tools to manage and deploy code/ applications and ensure compliance with SDLC policies.
Support merge conflict resolution.
Analyze and critique technical and business requirements to ensure completeness, accuracy, and feasibility.
Collaborate, document, and communicate technical implementation details clearly and concisely with other teams on dependent requirements.
Conduct code reviews, providing constructive feedback on code quality and improvements to team members.
Contribute to conversations with business or technical stakeholders and teams regarding the architecture of their applications.
Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls.
Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.