Software Engineering Manager (Treasury Payment Systems)

U.S. Bank • Chicago, IL

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a team responsible for delivering innovative Internet and Electronic Payment solutions. This leader will drive engineering excellence across digital payment platforms, modernize payment capabilities, and partner with product, architecture, security, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure payment experiences. The ideal candidate possesses strong people leadership skills, experience managing enterprise engineering teams, and expertise developing distributed applications and payment technologies within highly regulated environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Five to six years of relevant technical experience
• Three to four years of leading a software engineering team

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing and leading software engineering teams.
• Experience supporting payment processing, electronic payments, ACH, or digital banking platforms.
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud technologies.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture, Kafka, messaging systems , or distributed processing.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and release management.
• Strong understanding of SQL and large-scale transaction processing systems.
• Experience operating within highly regulated financial services environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and strategic planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers supporting Treasury Payment System applications.
• Drive delivery of scalable, secure, and highly available payment solutions.
• Partner with product and business stakeholders to define priorities and execute technology roadmaps.
• Lead modernization initiatives involving cloud, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Ensure application reliability, performance, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Establish engineering best practices for design, coding, testing, automation, and deployment.
• Manage production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and service improvements.
• Foster Agile delivery practices and continuous improvement across the engineering team.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent while promoting an inclusive, high-performance culture.

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: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree