Sr. Software Engineer - Golang
U.S. Bank•Minneapolis, MN
•Hybrid
About The Position
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead to help lead the design and evolution of our user management, authentication, and authorization platform. This role combines hands-on backend engineering with technical leadership. You will guide architecture, establish secure API and access-control patterns, mentor engineers, and partner across teams to build scalable, reliable identity services in Go on AWS. This position is not available for Visa Sponsorship
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
- Five to six years of relevant experience
- Software engineering experience, including significant experience building backend or platform services.
- Hands-on Golang experience in production systems.
- Proven experience leading technical design and delivery for distributed systems or platform services.
- Strong knowledge of authentication and authorization for modern APIs, including OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token validation, claims/scopes, and access-control enforcement.
- Experience designing authorization models such as RBAC, ABAC, or policy-based access control, with attention to least privilege and auditability.
- Experience building user lifecycle and identity-related capabilities such as provisioning, profile management, entitlements, roles, or delegated/admin access.
- Strong system design skills with emphasis on reliability, scalability, security, and observability.
- Experience with AWS, containerized services, and CI/CD for secure service delivery.
- Strong code review, mentoring, and cross-team communication skills.
- Experience making technical tradeoffs, driving decisions, and leading teams through ambiguity.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with PHP for legacy system integration or modernization work.
- Familiarity with healthcare or payment domains and their technical challenges.
- Understanding of regulatory requirements for protecting sensitive data in healthcare and finance.
- Experience with infrastructure automation practices and tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of backend services for user management, authentication, authorization, and related identity workflows.
- Define and evolve architecture for secure, scalable APIs and microservices in Go.
- Establish patterns for authorization enforcement, token validation, tenant isolation, audit logging, and privileged access controls.
- Guide technical decisions, design reviews, and tradeoff discussions across security, reliability, performance, and delivery.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback, pairing, and technical coaching.
- Partner with product, security, and platform teams to shape the roadmap and execution for identity-related capabilities.
- Improve engineering quality through testing strategy, operational readiness, observability, and incident response practices.
- Support modernization of legacy components and migrations toward standardized identity patterns and platforms.
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
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401(k) contribution and pension
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
