Software Engineer 2 (Full Stack - React)

U.S. Bank; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick and Safe Leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineer 2 to design, develop, and deliver high‑quality software in a modern React/Java/Spring Boot + cloud stack.

You’ll work across the full software lifecycle, collaborating with frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to build scalable microservices and robust UI components. The role emphasizes architecture input, performance optimization, and adherence to security standards in a cloud environment (Azure/AWS).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test, debug, document, maintain, and modify computer programs of high complexity, significance, and risk.
• Participate in application architecture functions including estimating and defining time tables, cost and project tasks.
• Recommend solutions to improve business with a focus on core architecture, technology strategies and standards.
• Guide others through change impact analysis.
• Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed.
• Review, analyze, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed.
• Create and recommend improvements to unit, test plans and testing process based on assessment of organizational needs.
• Collaborate closely with teams in all stages of software development lifecycle including design, development and testing of the system.
• Design basic and detailed program specifications while ensuring that expected application performance levels are achieved by managing interfaces, service levels, standards, and configurations.
• Guide technical staff and business partners to investigate, review, and solve complex, multidisciplinary business problems.
• Monitor operating efficiency and organizational needs of existing application systems and identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications of developed projects and recommend technical solutions.
• Demonstrate solid understanding of the business needs driving the projects

Skills

ReactJS

Next.js

Node.js

API integration

UI performance

Web accessibility

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Java

Spring Boot

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Git

CloudBees

Istio

Kubernetes

Docker

Artifactory

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.

Job Description Software Engineer 2 (React, Java, Spring Boot, Cloud)

• Design, code, test, debug, document, maintain, and modify computer programs of high complexity, significance, and risk
• Participate in application architecture functions including estimating and defining time tables, cost and project tasks
• Recommend solutions to improve business with a focus on core architecture, technology strategies and standards
• Guide others through change impact analysis
• Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed
• Review, analyze, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed
• Create and recommend improvements to unit, test plans and testing process based on assessment of organizational needs
• Collaborate closely with teams in all stages of software development lifecycle including design, development and testing of the system
• Design basic and detailed program specifications while ensuring that expected application performance levels are achieved by managing interfaces, service levels, standards, and configurations
• Guide technical staff and business partners to investigate, review, and solve complex, multidisciplinary business problems
• Monitor operating efficiency and organizational needs of existing application systems and identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications of developed projects and recommend technical solutions
• Demonstrate solid understanding of the business needs driving the projects

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

Hands on working experience developing highly maintainable, extensible, and testable distributed systems. Expertise in Modern JavaScript (ES6+), ReactJS, Next.js, and Node.js, with strong knowledge of DOM manipulation, JavaScript object model, and modern front‑end development practices. Extensive experience designing and building scalable Micro Frontend architectures, reusable React components, and responsive design systems for enterprise‑grade web applications. Proficient in state management and API integration, including Redux, Flux, Context API, GraphQL, Apollo Client, Axios, and Fetch‑based service layers. Strong UI development skills using HTML5, CSS3, SCSS, Styled Components, and Webpack, with hands‑on experience optimizing application performance, caching, and build processes. Deep understanding of web application architecture, OOP principles, design patterns, authentication mechanisms (JWT), accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0+, ADA compliance), and cross‑browser compatibility. Experienced with modern DevOps and development ecosystems, including CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CloudBees), Babel, NPM, Webpack4+, Artifactory, Git/TFS version control, and translating business requirements into high‑quality technical solutions. Proven ability to implement user interfaces against REST APIs. Hands‑on experience in Microservices/API development using Java/Spring boot. Experience in developing Cloud native applications in Azure or AWS is preferred. Experience on designing low latency applications designed for scalability and reliability with high throughput. Experience with open‑source technologies like Java, Spring boot, Kafka, etc. and containerization. Experience in Jenkins/Cloud bees, Gitlab, Apigee, Istio, Kubernetes, Rancher. Experience using modern and functional programming styles. Familiarity with source control management best practices. Good to have AI experience. Ability to analyze the bigger picture, identifying and prioritizing with the aim to consider more than one domain within an analysis. Preferred skill securing app and containers using certificates.

Location expectations

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

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Pay Range: $105,400.00 - $124,000.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures. Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

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.