Software Engineer 2 ( Backend)

U.S. Bank • Minneapolis, MN

3d • $105,400 - $124,000 • 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. About the team Business banking team is one of the core teams helping to deliver an integrated offering inclusive of banking, payments, and software - making it easy for Small Business Customers to access the full suite of services we offer through a combination of digital and human capabilities. The candidate will be working along with fellow engineers to build digital products & modernization of business banking platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Three to five years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Hands-On backend development using Java (Java EE/Java 8+), Spring Boot, and RESTful API design
• Strong experience building scalable microservices with focus on API security (OAuth, JWT) and resilience patterns
• Hands-on with cloud-native development on Azure, AWS, or GCP; Kubernetes/container orchestration experience preferred
• Proficient in API management & service mesh tools (Apigee, Istio) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/CloudBees)
• Experience with data systems including RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL (Cassandra)
• Exposure to streaming & event-driven architectures (Kafka, Spark) and modern API paradigms like GraphQL
• Strong foundation in Agile/Scrum, DevOps principles, and engineering tools (Git, Jira, automated testing frameworks)
• Excellent problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills with ability to translate business needs into technical solutions

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

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

What This Job Offers

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