U.S. Bank

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

U.S. Bank$126K — $149K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • 6-8 years of relevant experience
  • 10+ years in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, and microservices
  • Strong experience in financial services or regulated environments
  • Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, and application modernization
  • Skills in CI/CD, DevSecOps, and software architecture
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and modernization of enterprise applications
  • Drive cloud adoption and technology transformation
  • Define long-term architecture direction and engineering roadmaps
  • Lead migration of legacy applications to cloud-ready platforms
  • Design and maintain scalable APIs and microservices
  • Perform hands-on software development and production support
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and establish modernization strategies

Benefits

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Term life insurance options
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave
  • 401(k) with employer-funded retirement plan
  • Paid vacation based on tenure
  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals up to 80 hours per year
Full Job Description
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.***

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.

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

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

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U.S. Department of the Treasury is a government agency responsible for promoting economic prosperity and ensuring financial security. The department is responsible for a wide range of activities such as advising on economic and financial issues, encouraging sustainable economic growth, and fostering improved governance in financial institutions.

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