Software Engineer 2 (Cobol, DB2, JCL, VSAM, CICS)

MainframeMaster; Town of Brookfield (WI); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a skilled software engineer to design, develop, test, operate and maintain advanced software experiences. The ideal candidate will own full stack development, deliver production-ready code, and ensure scalable, reliable, and secure designs across the lifecycle.

You will participate in code reviews, follow DevOps and agile practices, and contribute to a culture of innovation and continuous improvement while aligning with banking standards and customer-centric outcomes.

Qualifications

• Design, develop, test, operate and maintain products.
• Own full stack development delivering production-ready code.
• Adhere to architectural best practices for scalability, reliability and performance.
• Analyze failures, propose design changes, and drive operational improvements.
• Make design/coding decisions with customer experience in mind.
• Incorporate feedback from code reviews to meet standards.
• Review code to guide engineering best practices and compliance.
• Ensure development follows security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, operate and maintain products.
• Take full stack ownership and deliver production-ready code.
• Ensure designs meet architectural standards for scalability, reliability and performance.
• Analyze failures and propose design changes for operational improvement.
• Prioritize customer experience in design and coding decisions.
• Incorporate code-review feedback to meet engineering standards.
• Lead code reviews and promote best practices and security.

Skills

Full stack development

Production-ready code

Architectural design

Code reviews

DevOps practices

Security compliance

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation