Senior Software Engineer

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their engaged team of engineers in a remote capacity. The role involves leading SCRUM Agile development teams, designing technical solutions, and ensuring the stability of mission-critical systems while mentoring junior developers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead SCRUM Agile development teams
• Partner with architects and solution engineers to design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Oversee proactive maintenance on our existing Iaas/SaaS and on premise applications within the Digital, Cards, Risk, and Merchant Services to ensure our mission critical systems remain stable, are able to scale as our business grows, and remain fit-for-purpose
• Coordinate and assist with troubleshooting of code defects, data errors and configuration problems to determine the origin of application error
• Know how to support Business critical/ complex applications
• Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
• Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards
• Show expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations and be able to optimize the use of database level processing
• Demonstrate empathy with developer and poses an innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail
• Have a deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code
• Always work to improve oneself and constructively support the team around them

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
• Strong knowledge and experience with Java 11+
• Strong knowledge and experience with Standard Design Patterns such as Factories, Command, Facade, Adapter, and more
• Strong knowledge and experience with OOD/OOA
• Strong knowledge and experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
• Strong knowledge and experience with REST and APIs
• Strong knowledge and experience with Unit Test and Mocking frameworks
• Strong knowledge and experience with git
• Strong knowledge and experience with event driven architecture
• Strong knowledge on AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Basic knowledge and experience with Postman
• Basic knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Basic knowledge and experience with Scrum and Agile
• Basic knowledge and experience with wikis
• Automation Testing
• React UI Development
• Gitlab Pipeline Development
• Experience leading development teams