Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead — Remote

First Citizens Bank; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 117,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Software Engineer to join our Corporate Credit Card delivery team, building a new platform and driving automated testing in a large enterprise environment.

You'll mentor developers, lead SCRUM teams, and design scalable microservice-based solutions using Java 11+, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern dev tools, while collaborating with product owners and external teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 3+ years of experience.
• Experience designing or modifying modern microservice-based systems.
• Advanced knowledge of Java 11+.
• Experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks.
• Experience with REST and APIs.
• Experience with Unit Test and Mocking frameworks.
• Experience with Git and Postman.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Scrum and Agile.
• Experience with wiki platforms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the business and architects to design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Lead multiple tech leads who oversee SCRUM teams within the domain providing coaching, and an escalation path for troubleshooting
• Drives domain wide change initiatives improving quality, speed, and throughput of the shop
• Oversee proactive maintenance on our existing IaaS/SaaS and on premise applications within the Digital, Cards, Risk, and Merchant Services 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.
• Know how to support Business critical/ complex applications.
• Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
• Show expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations and be able to optimize the use of database level processing.
• Demonstrate empathy with developer and poses an innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail.
• Have a deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
• Always work to improve oneself and constructively support the team around them.

Skills

Java 11+

Spring and Spring Boot

REST APIs

Unit Test and Mocking

Scrum and Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Postman

Job description

First Citizens Bank is seeking a hands-on Software Engineer to join our Corporate Credit Card delivery team, building a new platform and driving automated testing in a large enterprise environment.

You'll mentor developers, lead SCRUM teams, and design scalable microservice-based solutions using Java 11+, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern dev tools, while collaborating with product owners and external teams.