Software Engineer II

Citizens Bank; Short Hills (NJ); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. in Short Hills, NJ is seeking a Software Engineer II. The role focuses on designing and implementing scalable technology solutions, contributing to architecture, and delivering high-quality software in an Agile environment. Remote work is available one day per week.

You will develop in AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and OO languages, with emphasis on reliability and maintainability of distributed services, and collaborate with cross-functional teams for production readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or related field.
• 2 years of experience in software development.
• Experience architecting, designing, developing, implementing, and managing AWS Cloud solutions.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines tools (Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Maven, Bitbucket).
• Proficient in object-oriented languages (C, C++, VC++, Java).
• Web development with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML.
• Experience with IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse, VS Code, SVN, GIT, Bitbucket).
• Familiarity with MySQL and other databases.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and architecture for technology solutions.
• Design, modify, develop, and implement technology solutions.
• Build modern, scalable components and applications.
• Work in an Agile environment with best practices.
• Analyze requirements and ensure quality service characteristics.
• Participate in code and design reviews to meet standards.

Skills

Cloud architecture

CI/CD automation

Object-oriented programming

Web development

SQL/NoSQL databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering

Tools

AWS

Confluence

Jira

Jenkins

GIT

Maven

Bitbucket

IntelliJ

Eclipse

Visual Studio Code

Job description

Description

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Software Engineer II for its Short Hills, New Jersey location.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and architecture for the technology solutions.
• Responsible for Designing, modifying, developing, and implementing technology solutions.
• Build modern, architecturally sound components, tools, and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals.
• Participate in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices, and collaborating effectively with teammates.
• Analyze technology needs and gather technical requirements.
• Infuse quality of service characteristics, such as scalability, manageability, and maintainability, into distributed service-based framework to create or expand business or technical capabilities.
• Participate in code and design reviews to ensure that solutions meet the enterprise standards and best practices.
• Document development iterations; ensuring the quality of technical documentation; creating progress reports.
• Collaborate with cross functional team members as necessary and come up with optimal solutions that meet solution demands.
• Execute unit test of the developed functionality in target environment, validate expected result and ensure quality & accuracy.
• Coordinate with business users for user acceptance test and with operations team for code deployment to upper environments.
• Follow change management team stipulations on path to production requirements and strictly adhere to the compliance and regulatory needs.

Qualifications

Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field and two (2) years of experience as Software Developer, Software Engineer, or related position involving software development.

Full term of experience must include:

• Architecting, designing, developing, implementing, and managing AWS Cloud solutions;
• Utilizing highly automated CI/CD pipelines , including Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Maven and Bitbucket;
• Developing software in object oriented programming languages, including C, C++, VC++, and JAVA;
• Web application development utilizing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, & XML;
• Utilizing IDE and development tools, including IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, SVN, GIT, Bitbucket, Putty, WinSCP, Maven, and Nexus repository; and
• Utilizing RDBMS and NOSQL databases, including MySQL.

Remote work permitted 1 day per week.

Worksite: 101 John F Kennedy Pkwy., Short Hills, NJ 07078 United States, 40 hrs/wk. Salary Range: $112,169.40 - 135,000/year. EO employer.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.