Senior Java Tech Lead — Remote, Microservices & Cloud

First Citizens Bank; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Technical Lead for its Personal & Business Banking Digital Engineering team. This remote role, open to qualified candidates in AZ, NC, NJ, or TX, combines hands-on software development with architectural leadership to deliver scalable digital banking platforms.

You will bridge Agile pods and engineering leadership, review designs, mentor engineers, and drive best practices across backend, frontend, and DevSecOps domains while aligning with enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years in software engineering or related field.
• High School Diploma with 12+ years in software engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across one or more Agile product pods delivering customer-facing digital banking capabilities.
• Drive engineering excellence and promote modern software development practices.
• Act as the primary technical contact between development teams and engineering leadership.
• Translate architectural direction into actionable delivery plans and implementation strategies.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and roadmaps.
• Facilitate technical discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decision-making.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Event-Driven

Microservices

Distributed Systems

Secure Development

Angular

React

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Selenium

Playwright

Education

Bachelor's Degree + 8+ years experience

High School Diploma + 12+ years experience

Tools

Apache Kafka

OpenAPI

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking an experienced Technical Lead for its Personal & Business Banking Digital Engineering team. This remote role, open to qualified candidates in AZ, NC, NJ, or TX, combines hands-on software development with architectural leadership to deliver scalable digital banking platforms.

You will bridge Agile pods and engineering leadership, review designs, mentor engineers, and drive best practices across backend, frontend, and DevSecOps domains while aligning with enterprise