Hybrid Software Engineer 1, Mainframe Developer, COBOL

at U.S. Bank

• Job title: Software Engineer 1, Mainframe Developer, COBOL
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $86,360 - $101,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Brookfield, United States

About the role

• Software Engineer responsible for software design, development, and maintenance at U.S. Bank. Collaborating with teams to enhance customer experience and uphold engineering best practices.

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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Two to three years of relevant experience
• Strong technical knowledge and skills in Cobol, DB2 , JCL, VSAM
• Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
• Complete understanding of a feature, the users impacted, the flows impacted and feature's purpose
• Technically proficient and able to define and fulfill solutions requirements for end user
• Able to communicate processes and results with all parties involved in the product team, including engineers, product owner, scrum master, third party vendors and customers
• Proficient understanding of algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

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