Senior Software Engineer

First Citizens Bank is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Corporate Credit Card delivery team. The role designs and develops enterprise technical solutions, leads tech leads and Scrum teams, drives domain-wide improvements, and supports mission-critical applications across Digital, Cards, Risk, and Merchant Services.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the business and architects to design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Lead multiple tech leads who oversee SCRUM teams within the domain providing coaching, and an escalation path for troubleshooting
• Drives domain wide change initiatives improving quality, speed, and throughput of the shop
• 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:

• This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): AZ, FL, GA, NC and TX
• The ideal candidate is a seasoned software developer with a history of operating in large enterprise environment who has designed and led implementation of medium to large sized systems
• This individual would have tangible examples of how they have led development teams to successful deployments, coached and mentored senior developers, and have driven an enterprise level design of a system(s)
• They will also be able to clearly communicate and express complex ideas not only with tech leads and team members, but also business product owners, as well as external teams, while establishing a working relationship built on trust through delivery
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 3+ Years of experience
• Intermediate to Strong experience designing or modifying modern microservice based systems
• Advanced interpersonal skills including communication and negotiation
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Java 11+
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Standard Design Patterns such as Factories, Command, Facade, Adapter, and more
• Advanced knowledge and experience with OOD/OOA
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
• Advanced knowledge and experience with REST and APIs
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Unit Test and Mocking frameworks
• Advanced knowledge and experience with git
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Postman
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Advanced knowledge and experience with Scrum and Agile
• Advanced knowledge and experience with wikis
• Banking experience is preferred, but not necessary
• Automation Testing Framework Development
• React UI Development
• Gitlab Pipeline Development