Software Engineer 2 - Full Stack (Java/Springboot/React)

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.

Essential 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 operaional 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

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Hands-on experience in Microservices/API development using Java/Springboot 

• Expert level of hands-on experience in React.js and its core principles.

• Experience in Cloud native development in Azure, AWS or GCP is preferred. 

• Experience in streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, Spark is preferred. 

• Experience with RDBMS like PostgreSQL, and/or MS SQL 

• Experience in NoSQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB. 

• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model

• Prior experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

• Familiarity with more current specifications of ECMAScript

• Prior experience with data structure libraries (e.g., Immutable.js)

• Experience in Jenkins/Cloud bees, Apigee, Kubernetes, Rancher. 

• Thorough understanding of a feature, the users impacted, the flows impacted and feature's purpose 

• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles 

• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers 

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.