Software Engineer- Mainframe

U.S. Bank; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) and employer‑funded retirement

Paid vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a skilled software engineer to contribute across the full development lifecycle in a fast‑paced, collaborative environment. You will own full‑stack tasks, write production‑ready code, and work with COBOL, CICS, and DB2 on z/OS while applying DevOps practices.

The role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week in the Atlanta area. This is a great opportunity to grow within a leading financial services group.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Two to three years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, operate and maintain products.
• Own full stack, write production-ready code.
• Ensure scalable, reliable, high-performance designs.
• Analyze failures, propose design changes, improve operations.
• Make sound design decisions with customer focus.
• Incorporate code review feedback to meet standards.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure best practices and compliance.
• Ensure compliance and security in product development.
• Embrace new tech and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Prioritize tasks for incremental delivery and flag blockers.

Skills

Agile lifecycle

DevOps (Git)

COBOL development

CICS programming

JCL/PROCs

DB2 on z/OS

Linux/Unix basics

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. 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. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology.

As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Job Description

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

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Two to three years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles (Git)
• Experience with COBOL development, debugging, and maintenance across complex mainframe applications
• Experience with CICS program development and support in high‑volume transaction environments
• Experience with JCL and PROCs creation, troubleshooting, and optimization
• Experience with DB2 development, performance tuning, and maintenance in z/OS environment
• Nice to have knowledge of Linux/Unix environments

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.

E‑Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E‑Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E‑Verify program is an Internet‑based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E‑Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Pay Range: $86,360.00 - $101,600.00

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.