Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. First Citizens Bank is a financial institution providing digital banking and related technology services. The Senior Java Engineer will develop and support Digital Banking solutions, design technical approaches, provide application support, and guide distributed development teams. The role covers research, design, technology integration, development, testing, troubleshooting, and maintenance of critical banking applications.

Responsibilities

• 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-premise applications within the Digital Banking, Mobile and integrating with Cards, Merchant Services, Payments, Foreign Exchange, Core banking and Trade Finance space 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 error
• Strong experience in supporting Business critical/ complex applications
• Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
• Nice to have technical lead experience for small to medium sized projects
• Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards
• Demonstrated expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations and be able to optimize the use of database level processing
• Empathy with developers. Innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail
• Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code
• Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore
• Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty
• Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you
• May mentor junior engineers and contribute to the team's technical growth

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
• 8-10 years of hands on experience with Java/J2EE environment
• Excellent ability to communicate technical information clearly and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Strong design & development experience with JEE & Enterprise Technologies: JMS, JDBC, Web development, Transactions, WS-\*, JVM, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JMX, JTA, Spring, JUnit, Hibernate
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience building SpringBoot Microservices
• Experience building applications using container architecture with Kubernetes orchestration
• Preferred experience on public API development and using API Gateway like APIGEE
• In-depth understanding of JavaScript, including ES6+ features, Loopback, closures and asynchronous programming
• Worked on Agile projects and has complete knowledge of day to day Agile routines
• Proven experience in building user interfaces with React.js
• Familiarity with state management libraries like Redux or MobX
• Understanding of the React component lifecycle and its best practices
• Experience with testing frameworks like Jest or Mocha
• Ability to interact with REST APIs and handle data fetching and manipulation
• Proficient in using GITLAB for version control
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and ORACLE Database systems
• Understanding of basic UI/UX design principles
• Prior experience with regulated financial organization is a plus

Benefits

• Variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards may be included in total compensation for some roles.
• First Citizens Bank provides a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of its associates.

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