Lead Full-Stack Java / AWS Software Engineer - Branch Money Movement

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Architecture, Modernization, and Cloud Strategy

• Lead the architecture, design, and modernization of enterprise applications that support high-volume transaction processing, operational workflows, customer servicing capabilities, and critical business operations.
• Drive cloud adoption and technology transformation using Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, microservices, and modern engineering practices.
• Define long-term architecture direction, engineering roadmaps, modernization strategies, and cloud adoption plans that support enterprise technology transformation.
• Lead migration of legacy applications to scalable, resilient, secure, and cloud-ready platforms while reducing technical debt and improving maintainability.

Engineering Delivery and Technical Execution

• Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs, microservices, and event-driven applications using Java, Spring Boot, and distributed system architectures.
• Perform hands-on software development, solution design, code reviews, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production support for business-critical applications.
• Lead integration efforts across enterprise systems and vendor platforms while promoting reusable services, API-first design principles, and scalable technology solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and establish modernization strategies that improve developer productivity, scalability, security, and operational effectiveness.

Standards, Reliability, and Operational Excellence

• Provide technical leadership on application architecture, engineering standards, cloud strategy, modernization roadmaps, and software development best practices.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD frameworks, and Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across development teams.
• Drive adoption of observability, monitoring, automation, resiliency, and performance engineering capabilities to improve platform stability, operational efficiency, and service availability.

Collaboration and Technical Leadership

• Partner closely with business, product, architecture, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams to deliver innovative technology solutions that improve customer and employee experiences.
• Provide technical mentorship, guidance, and enablement to software engineers and technical leads while fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Six to eight years of relevant experience

Experience Should Include

• 10+ years of Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and distributed architectures.
• VERY strong money movement experience, preferably for branches
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, cloud-native platforms (ideally AWS, Azure is a good 2nd place), and large-scale application modernization.
• Strong knowledge of event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, and messaging technologies such as Kafka and AMQ.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation, testing, and engineering tools including Jenkins, Maven, GitHub, and SonarQube.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Redis.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, resiliency, observability, security, and performance optimization.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives while remaining hands-on in design, development, delivery, and production support for mission-critical platforms.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, execution, and stakeholder partnership skills in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices, technical standards, and development excellence.
• Strong banking, financial services, payments, transaction processing, or other highly regulated environments.
• Front-end in React or NodeJS
• This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.*

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• 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

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $126,820.00 - $149,200.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.