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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** U.S. Bank
- **Location:** Gaithersburg, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $119,765.0 - $140,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Software Applications, Application Performance Management, Code Review, DevOps, Azure Machine Learning, Web Applications, Reliability of Systems, Backend, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/usedb30a2f22e937414e557f39db25d097/eaa

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

 - Five to six years of relevant experience
Preferred Skills/Experience
Experience leading development of modern web applications
Strong backend + ML systems experience
GenAI exposure (required)
ML platform engineering experience
Strong AI/ML understanding (incl. embeddings)
Leadership skills including mentoring and coaching engineers of all skill levels
Able to collaborate with partner engineering teams
architecting and implementing high performing software applications.
Responsible for application performance, complex APIs and integration across multiple applications.
Work cross functionally with Product, Design, and other partner teams to deliver well-engineered experiences that delight customers.
Strong backend + ML systems experience
Expertise in agile development methodologies
Strong analytical skills and ability to review code

## 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.
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


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