Sr Software Engineer (Full-stack, Generative AI)

300 U.S. Bank National Association; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Parental leave

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation

Holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a senior software engineer in Minnesota to lead design, development, and maintenance of state-of-the-art software experiences. You will own full stack delivery, align with agile and DevOps practices, and drive reliability and security across products.

The role emphasizes collaboration, code quality, and continuous improvement within a large financial services environment, with on-site expectations at a U.S. Bank location in Minnesota.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required.
• 5–6 years of relevant software development experience.
• Strong experience in Java and modern web technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, operate, and maintain software products.
• Own full stack development and deliver production-ready code.
• Ensure designs adhere to architectural best practices for scalability and reliability.
• Analyze failures, propose design changes, and improve operations.
• Incorporate feedback from code reviews to meet standards.
• Conduct code reviews and guide engineering best practices.
• Ensure compliance and security best practices across development.
• Contribute to reliability and emerging technology initiatives.

Skills

Java 17+

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

React.js

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Generative AI

LLMs

Prompt Engineering

AI Applications

Vector Databases

Semantic Search

Embeddings

Azure OpenAI

OpenAI APIs

LangChain

LangGraph

MCP

AI Agents

AI Governance

SRE

Agile

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

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

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
• Five to six years of relevant experience

Required Skills

Strong experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and Microservices. Experience building modern applications using React.js. Hands‑on expertise with AWS, including cloud‑native application development. Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD automation. Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, and AI application development. Knowledge of RAG, Vector Databases, Semantic Search, Embeddings, and Knowledge Retrieval. Experience integrating Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, and AI Agents. Understanding of AI Governance, Responsible AI, SRE, Agile, and DevOps best practices.

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.

Pay Range

Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

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 you excel at—and your identity—you'll have a strong self‑service attitude. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel.