Senior Software Engineer (Front-end Development/Full Stack)

U.S. Bank • Brookfield, WI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This position is responsible for analyzing, designing, testing, developing, and maintaining software experiences. The engineer collaborates with a team and across the organization, takes responsibility for software artifacts in accordance with U.S. Bank standards, and works to minimize impact to the customer experience. The role requires familiarity with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

The engineer develops and maintains products with full-stack ownership, creating production-ready, testable code and designs that follow architectural best practices and account for scalability, reliability, and performance. The role also includes analyzing failures, recommending design changes, promoting operational improvements, and keeping customer experience central to technical decisions. The engineer participates in code reviews, ensures development follows compliance and security practices, and embeds software reliability engineering standards in development. The role contributes to emerging technology practices, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, while prioritizing incremental delivery and communicating blockers and delays.

The role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Five to six years of relevant experience.
• Expertise with React (18.x), JavaScript (ES6+), and modern front-end development.
• Experience building scalable enterprise web applications using micro frontends and Module Federation.
• Strong skills in HTML, CSS/SCSS, CSS Modules, responsive design, and reusable UI components.
• Experience with state management using Zustand and React Context, and asynchronous data handling.
• Proficiency integrating REST APIs, web services, and third-party platforms using Axios.
• Knowledge of authentication, MFA integration, and front-end security best practices.
• Experience developing accessible, WCAG-compliant, internationalized, and localized applications.
• Hands-on experience with Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright for automated testing.
• Proficiency with Git for source code management and CI/CD pipelines for deploying code.
• Familiarity with financial applications, payment systems (ACH, RTP, Wire Transfers), and Java/Spring Boot environments.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of AI Functions.
• Ability to work from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, operate, and maintain products.
• Take full-stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code.
• Create optimal designs that adhere to architectural best practices and consider system scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Analyze failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements.
• Make sound design and coding decisions with customer experience in mind.
• Apply feedback from code reviews and make changes to meet standards.
• Conduct code reviews to guide engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures.
• Ensure all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices.
• Embed software reliability engineering standards into development standards.
• Embrace emerging technology opportunities and contribute to best practices supporting the bank’s technology transformation.
• Contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Critically review tasks, ensure they are prioritized and sized for incremental delivery, and communicate blockers and delays before escalation.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, and 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 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.

What This Job Offers

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