Lead Software Engineer (Remote)

First Citizens Bank; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Lead Software Engineer to provide technology solutions in Payments and Money movement. This remote opportunity involves leading software development, driving architectural decisions, and ensuring best practices across various technologies. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in both technical execution and leadership within agile environments, with a focus on delivering high-quality software solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in software application development and maintenance or 10+ years with a diploma.
• Strong experience in technical leadership for enterprise projects.
• Proficiency in developing secure, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Lead software development efforts across architecture, design, and implementation.
• Develop technical solutions ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Supervise release processes including after-hours support.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Technical Strategy

Payments Technology

Agile Methodology

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma/GED

Tools

AWS

Docker

Java/J2EE

React

Spring Boot

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Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): AZ, NC and TX

Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): AZ, NC and TX

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer who provides technology solutions and integration services in following areas: Payments & Money movement, information reporting. The ideal candidate should have the necessary skills and experience to provide technical guidance, estimation of efforts, understanding and deciding upon the optimal technology solution to achieve the desired business needs, day to day application support, should be able to navigate differing levels of gray/unknowns, and have excellent communication skills with other IT management levels, individual contributors, and business stakeholders. They must be able to move at a rapid rate of execution to deliver requests and take advantage of any opportunities as they present themselves and navigate through any resource constraints. They must have both the short- and long-term strategic view when deciding on the best technical approach. They must be able to develop code and effectively oversee distributed development team members.

Responsibilities

This role will be responsible for leading all software aspects within the team including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and supporting them.

• Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Provide development leadership (Architecture, Strategy, Design, Development) on our Client facing Payments platforms.
• Drive department best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
• Innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail.
• Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
• Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore.
• Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you.
• Drive technical designs to consensus and approval by Architecture Review Team. Design and develop enterprise solutions for specific business need that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements.
• Perform impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions; looks for additional solution options or trade-offs. Identifies cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions (e.g. people, processes, technology, strategy, finance).
• Creates and maintains application architecture and related assets. Be the go-to person for development team on architecture discussions. The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned.
• Supervise release processes (some after-hours/weekend work may be required)
  
  

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance

Preferred Skills

• Technical leadership experience for medium to large sized enterprise projects with strong communication, driving technical strategy and roadmap.
• Ability to moderate, analyze and troubleshoot production issues on both on Prem and vendor solutions.
• Must have Working knowledge on AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, OpenShift
• Strong proficiency and hands on experience in Design and Development of distributed systems
• Development experience with Node, React, Java/J2EE, Restful Webservices
• Experience building Spring Boot Microservices
• Preferred experience on public API development and using API Gateway like APIGEE
• File-based transfer applications (e.g. Sterling, SFTP, etc.)
• Strong proficiency and hands on experience in Design and Development RDBMS architecture and performance tuning systems like Oracle/MS- SQL/SQL Server and NoSQL databases
• Worked on Agile projects and has complete knowledge of day-to-day Agile routines.
• Experience with Payment Technology, ISO 20022, file formats such as NACHA, PAIN, BAI2, CAMT, Real Time Payments, SWIFT integration, or similar platforms.
• Banking/Payments Industry knowledge with experience delivering on large modernization/transformative efforts.
  
  

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Banking and Financial Services

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