Sr Software Engineer (Full-stack, Generative AI)

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.

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 .

Conditions

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

• Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
• 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 .