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# Lead Software Engineer (Microservices/Java/Spring boot /Cloud)

- **Company:** U.S. Bank
- **Location:** Denver, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $126,820.0 - $149,200.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Code Review, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Node.Js, Open Source Technology, ReactJS, Istio, Spring-boot, Reliability of Systems, Apigee, Gitlab, Containerization, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Rancher, Apache Kafka, Npm(Software), Functional Programming, Api Design, Restful APIs, Software Version Control, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.denverjobsite.com/job.asp?id=3331552680&tx=JT9587TTZ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
 * Six to eight years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

 * Hands on working experience developing highly maintainable, extensible, and testable distributed systems
 * Hands on development experience with Node, NPM and React framework, producing hygiene and secure front-end code.
 * Proven ability to implement user interfaces against REST APIs
 * Hands-on experience in Microservices/API development using Java/Spring boot
 * Experience in developing Cloud native applications in Azure or AWS is preferred.
 * Experience on designing low latency applications designed for scalability and reliability with high throughput.
 * Experience with open-source technologies like Java, Spring boot, Kafka , etc. and containerization.
 * Experience in Jenkins/Cloud bees, Gitlab, Apigee, Istio, Kubernetes, Rancher.
 * Experience using modern and functional programming styles
 * Familiarity with source control management best practices
 * Good to have AI experience.
 * Ability to analyze the bigger picture, identifying and prioritizing with the aim to consider more than one domain within an analysis
 * Preferred skill securing app and containers using certificates

## Description

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., * 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


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