First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to provide technology solutions and integration services in core banking and payments. The role involves leading software development efforts, providing technical guidance, and ensuring best practices are followed within the team.
Responsibilities:
- This role will be responsible for all software aspects within the team including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and supporting them
- Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
- Provide development leadership (Architecture, Design, Development) on our Emerging Payments platforms
- Drive department best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards
- Innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail
- Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code
- Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore
- Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty
- Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you
- Drive technical designs to consensus and approval by Architecture Review Team
- Design and develop enterprise solutions for specific business need that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements
- Perform impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions; looks for additional solution options or trade-offs
- Identifies cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions (e.g. people, processes, technology, strategy, finance)
- Creates and maintains application architecture and related assets
- Be the go-to person for development team on architecture discussions
- Supervise release processes (some after-hours/weekend work may be required)
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
- Technical leadership experience for medium to large sized enterprise projects
- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot production issues
- Must have Working knowledge on AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, OpenShift
- Strong proficiency and hands on experience in Design and Development of distributed systems
- Development experience with Node, React, Java/J2EE, Restful Webservices
- Experience building SpringBoot Microservices
- Preferred experience on public API development and using API Gateway like APiGEE
- File-based transfer applications (e.g. Sterling, SFTP, etc)
- Strong proficiency and hands on experience in Design and Development RDBMS architecture and performance tuning systems like Oracle/MS- SQL/SQL Server and NoSQL databases
- Worked on Agile projects and has complete knowledge of day to day Agile routines
- Proficiency in event driven architecture using Kafka or other messaging systems