Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

4 Days in the office from any of our locations in Johnston RI, Iselin NJ, Westwood or Medford MA, or Phoenix AZ and couple other locations

Role is not relocation eligible.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

As a software engineer, you will work alongside and mentor a group of talented engineers as you pursue a broad range of initiatives. By leveraging your technical skills and thirst for innovation, you will produce disruptive technologies that will ensure Citizens market leadership. As a future leader, you will work on multiple solutions spanning our consumer banking applications.

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for:

• Designing, modifying, developing and implementing technology solutions. Building modern, architecturally sound components, tools and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals.
• Participating in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices and collaborating effectively with your team mates.
• Designing, modifying, developing and implementing software solutions. Building modern, architecturally sound components, tools and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals.
• Infusing quality of service characteristics, such as scalability, manageability and maintainability, into distributed service-based framework to create or expand business or technical capabilities.
• Contributing insight from prior experiences when considering design specifications, considering the goals of the consumer-facing product.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software development, with a proven record of successfully launching commercial products
• 3+ years of experience with collecting requirements, creating software designs and developing efficient implementations
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a team environment, strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Understanding of multiple programming languages, including at least one front end framework (Angular/React/Vue), such as Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.

Desired Qualifications

• Understanding of flow and orchestration systems like Flowable
• Understanding of the banking industry, specifically the functions of custodial and consumer banking
• AWS/AZURE/GCP experience
• Bash and Linux experience
• Familiarity with full-stack development
• Experience with CICD pipeline (CircleCI, Jenkins, or equivalent)
• Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect
• Understand data structure concepts such as linked lists, dictionaries, arrays, custom object creation, etc.

Education and Certifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline

Pay Transparency

The salary range for this position is $ 107,360 - $ 161,000 per year plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to the work location, and relevant skills and experience.


We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens' paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of very local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit

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