Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. First Citizens Bank is seeking a Software Engineer II to design, develop, integrate, and support cloud-native solutions across Payments, Money Movement, and Information Reporting platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in AWS cloud technologies, software development, and system integrations.
Responsibilities
- The successful candidate will have experience building applications using AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, IAM, and KMS, along with modern development frameworks including Java, Spring Boot, and Node.js
- This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of critical payment and financial solutions while growing technical expertise in cloud-native application development and enterprise-scale systems
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree and 2 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
- 2+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering and architecture experience
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting cloud-native applications on AWS
- Experience with AWS Lambda
- Experience with Amazon ECS
- Experience with AWS Step Functions
- Experience with Amazon SQS and SNS
- Experience with Amazon S3
- Experience with Amazon DynamoDB
- Experience with Amazon RDS
- Experience with AWS IAM and KMS
- Experience with AWS Transfer Family
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices
- Experience designing and implementing event-driven, microservices, and serverless architectures
- Strong hands-on development experience with Java, Spring Boot, and/or Node.js
- Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and OpenShift
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment strategies
- Ability to build highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and scalable enterprise solutions
- Proven experience leading development teams and driving technical architecture decisions
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)
- AWS Certified Developer Associate
- Experience with payment processing, ACH, wire transfers, real-time payments, card processing, or other money movement platforms
- Experience with financial systems integrations and regulatory reporting solutions
- Experience with Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and enterprise observability platforms
- Experience leading cloud modernization and application transformation initiatives
- Experience in regulated financial services environments
Benefits
- Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.
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