U.S. Bank

Software Engineering Director (Platform Engineering)

U.S. Bank$150K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • Eight or more years of relevant software engineering experience
  • Five or more years leading a software engineering team
  • Strong software engineering background in banking, fintech, or digital platforms
  • Hands-on expertise with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker
  • Experience with microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a software engineering team for Underwriting/ACAPS capabilities
  • Drive engineering modernization focusing on business alignment and customer needs
  • Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and Operations for cloud-native solutions
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices like Agile and CI/CD
  • Oversee API platform development and microservices architecture
  • Monitor platform performance and lead continuous improvement initiatives
  • Manage hiring, coaching, and career development for engineering talent

Benefits

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Basic and optional term life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave
  • 401(k) with employer funding
  • Paid vacation from two to five weeks
  • Up to 11 paid holidays
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals up to 80 hours per calendar year
Full Job Description
Job Description

Software Engineering Director exhibits a mix of technical acumen, strategy and vision, along with the ability to cultivate and grow technical talent. An advanced technologist enabling strong coding practices and solid design decisions. Builds meaningful relationships and effectively partners to remove organizational obstacles and guide cross-team strategic efforts. Acts as agile/product champion by enabling product teams and partnering with other leaders to drive empowerment, autonomy, engineering momentum, and business value. Fosters a culture of empowerment, engineering excellence, and growth.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of software engineers delivering Underwriting/ACAPS capabilities.
  • Drive execution of engineering modernization roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business priorities, customer needs, and enterprise technology strategies with clear business outcomes
  • Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native solutions.
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices including Agile delivery, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, and SRE principles.
  • Oversee API platform development, integration services, microservices architecture, and partner ecosystem connectivity.
  • Monitor platform performance, availability, reliability, and operational excellence while driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Manage hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and career development for engineering talent.
  • Lead technology modernization efforts focused on cloud adoption, digital transformation, automation, and engineering efficiency.


Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Eight or more years of relevant software engineering experience
- Five or more years of experience leading a software engineering team

Preferred Skills/Experience

  • Strong software engineering experience with 5+ years leading engineering teams in banking, fintech, payments, or digital platforms.
  • Strong experience building and managing large-scale Digital Banking platforms.
  • Hands-on expertise with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Proven experience delivering microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and high-volume transaction processing systems.
  • Deep knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and platform observability tools.
  • Strong understanding of financial services security, authentication, OAuth/OIDC, API governance, risk controls, and regulatory compliance.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams using Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or product-centric delivery models.
  • Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills with the ability to influence technical and business decisions.
  • Experience Building AI driven decision automation while delivering efficiencies with a clear business outcome.


Location expectations
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.

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

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