Software Engineer II (Remote)

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Software Engineer II to join their highly engaged team of engineers. The role involves leading the development of technical solutions, overseeing application maintenance, and ensuring system stability while collaborating with architects and solution engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with architects and solution engineers to design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Oversee proactive maintenance on our existing Iaas/SaaS and on-premises applications within the Digital, Cards, Risk, and Merchant Services to ensure our mission critical systems remain stable, are able to scale as our business grows, and remain fit-for-purpose
• Coordinate and assist with troubleshooting of code defects, data errors and configuration problems to determine the origin of application errors
• Know how to support Business critical/ complex applications
• Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
• Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards
• Show expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations, and be able to optimize the use of database level processing
• Demonstrate empathy with developers and poses an innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail
• Have a deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code
• Always work to improve oneself and constructively support the team around them

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree and 2 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 6 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
• Current contractor/contingent worker for First Citizens Bank
• Knowledge of First Citizens Bank systems and processes
• 3+ years of back-end microservices focused development experience
• Knowledge and experience with Java 11+
• Knowledge and experience with Standard Design Patterns such as Factories, Command, Facade, Adapter, and more
• Knowledge and experience with OOD/OOA
• Knowledge and experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
• Knowledge and experience with REST and APIs
• Knowledge and experience with Unit Test and Mocking frameworks
• Knowledge and experience with git
• Basic knowledge and experience with Postman
• Basic knowledge of messaging queues (Kafka), caching techniques and elastic search
• Basic knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Basic knowledge and experience with Scrum and Agile
• Basic knowledge and experience with wikis
• Automation Testing
• React UI Development
• Gitlab Pipeline Development
• Experience leading development teams