Senior Java Engineer - Platform Engineer (Remote)

First Citizens Bank; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Senior Java Engineer to join our Online Banking delivery team. You will drive development and support of Digital Banking solutions, lead real-time and batch integrations, and guide distributed teams to deliver secure, scalable software across card, payments, and core banking domains.

Ideal candidates have 8–10 years Java/J2EE, strong communication, experience with Spring, REST APIs, React, Kubernetes, and API gateways.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years hands-on Java/J2EE experience.
• Excellent ability to communicate technical information clearly.
• Strong design with JEE Enterprise Technologies: JMS, JDBC, Web, Transactions, JVM, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMX, JTA, Spring.
• Experience building SpringBoot microservices and REST APIs.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments.
• Familiarity with API gateways like APIGEE and public API development.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop technical solutions for functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Oversee maintenance of IaaS/SaaS and on‑premise Digital Banking applications.
• Troubleshoot code defects, data errors, and configuration problems.
• Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices across the team.
• Lead real‑time and file‑based integrations and optimize DB processing.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Strong communication

Agile methodologies

React.js

REST APIs

Spring Framework

Kubernetes

API Gateway/APIGEE

Jira/Confluence

JVM/JSP/Servlets

JDBC/JMS

GitLab

Junit/Hibernate

Jenkins/CI

Education

Bachelor's Degree + 4 years experience

Alternative: High School + 8 years experience

Tools

Oracle DB

APIGEE

Docker/Containerization

REST clients/tools

Job description

Overview

This is a remote role open for multiple markets across the United States.

We are looking for a hands‑on Senior Java Engineer to join our growing Online Banking delivery team, which provides technology solutions and integration services in following areas: Digital Banking, Core banking, Credit/Charge/Debit Cards, and Foreign Exchange. 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.

As a Sr. Java Engineer, primary responsibility will be towards the development and support of Digital Banking solutions/projects. The Senior Software engineer will be responsible for all software aspects within the team including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and supporting them.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Oversee proactive maintenance on our existing Iaas/SaaS and on-premise applications within the Digital Banking, Mobile and integrating with Cards, Merchant Services, Payments, Foreign Exchange, Core banking and Trade Finance space 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.
• Strong experience in supporting Business critical/ complex applications.
• Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Nice to have technical lead experience for small to medium sized projects.
• Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations and be able to optimize the use of database level processing.
• Empathy with developers. 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.
• May mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's technical growth.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance

Preferred Skills:

• 8-10 years of hands on experience with Java/J2EE environment
• Excellent ability to communicate technical information clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Strong design & development experience with JEE & Enterprise Technologies: JMS, JDBC, Web development, Transactions, WS-*, JVM, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMX, JTA, Spring, JUnit, Hibernate.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience building SpringBoot Microservices.
• Experience building applications using container architecture with Kubernetes orchestration.
• Preferred experience on public API development and using API Gateway like APIGEE.
• In-depth understanding of JavaScript, including ES6+ features, Loopback, closures and asynchronous programming
• Worked on Agile projects and has complete knowledge of day to day Agile routines.
• Proven experience in building user interfaces with React.js
• Familiarity with state management libraries like Redux or MobX
• Understanding of the React component lifecycle and its best practices
• Experience with testing frameworks like Jest or Mocha
• Ability to interact with REST APIs and handle data fetching and manipulation
• Proficient in using GITLAB for version control
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and ORACLE Database systems
• Understanding of basic UI/UX design principles
• Prior experience with regulated financial organization is a plus

Additional Information

This job posting is expected to remain active for 14 days from the initial posting date listed above. If it is necessary to extend this deadline, the posting will remain active as appropriate. Job postings may come down early due to business need or a high volume of applicants.

The base pay for this position is generally between $130,000 and $160,000. Actual starting base pay will be determined based on skills, experience, location, and other non-discriminatory factors permitted by law. For some roles, total compensation may also include variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards as outlined in the offer of employment.

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.