Software Engineer 2 (Full stack- Java/React/AI)

About the position

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

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

Requirements

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

Nice-to-haves

• Strong development background on full stack end-to-end technologies - both front end and back end
• React, Javascript, Java, APIs w/ Spring tech stacks, CI/CD, building production-grade web applications and APIs
• Expertise with open stack technologies to implement Microservices
• Hands on knowledge of Gen AI tools - LangChain, LangGraph, Agentic Frameworks etc.
• Data structures (especially those that relate to machine learning, such as data frames), Algorithms (including those related to databases and data manipulation), Software design, familiarity with Python, and familiarity with key libraries such as TensorFlow or PyTorch, and scikit-learn
• Extensive experience in working with Spring Boot, Kafka, NoSQL/Cassandra and/or Graph DB’s technologies
• Good experience w/ GitHub Co-Pilot
• Exceptional technical expertise in architectural design, development and implementation with specialization in multiple technology disciplines, platforms and applications
• Cloud native application development in Azure, AKS, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience working in a DevOps environment (Git/GitHub, CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Understanding of Test-Driven Development concepts and supportive tools like SOAUPUI, Selenium, Playwright Cucumber, Postman, Karate
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization of services via OAuth 2
• Extensive knowledge in system integration and business process modeling
• Good understanding of Private and Public Cloud Architectures

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