Lead Software Engineer - Direct Transactions

This is a remote role that may be hired in the following locations: North Carolina, Arizona, Texas

We are looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer who provides technology solutions and integration services in following areas: Payments & Money movement, information reporting. The ideal candidate should have the necessary skills and experience to provide technical guidance, estimation of efforts, understanding and deciding upon the optimal technology solution to achieve the desired business needs, day to day application support, should be able to navigate differing levels of gray/unknowns, and have excellent communication skills with other IT management levels, individual contributors, and business stakeholders. They must be able to move at a rapid rate of execution to deliver requests and take advantage of any opportunities as they present themselves and navigate through any resource constraints. They must have both the short- and long-term strategic view when deciding on the best technical approach. They must be able to develop code and effectively oversee distributed development team members.

This role will be responsible for leading all software aspects within the team including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and supporting them.

• Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Provide development leadership (Architecture, Strategy, Design, Development) on our Client facing Payments platforms.
• Drive department best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
• Innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail.
• Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
• Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore.
• Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Always working to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you.
• Drive technical designs to consensus and approval by Architecture Review Team. Design and develop enterprise solutions for specific business need that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements.
• Perform impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions; looks for additional solution options or trade-offs. Identifies cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions (e.g. people, processes, technology, strategy, finance).
• Creates and maintains application architecture and related assets. Be the go-to person for development team on architecture discussions. The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned.
• Supervise release processes (some after-hours/weekend work may be required)

Bachelor's Degree and 6 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 10 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expert in Lambda & ECS (serverless + containers)
• Strong in Step Functions, SQS, SNS (event-driven systems)
• Experience with S3, DynamoDB & RDS (storage + databases)
• Proficient in KMS & IAM (security & access)
• Hands-on with AWS Transfer Family (SFTP)
• Skilled in Terraform (IaC)
• Experience with CloudWatch/X-Ray (monitoring)
• Experience with Docker & OpenShift (containers & orchestration)
• Strong in Java, Spring Boot & Node.js (backend development)
• Ability to build scalable, fault-tolerant architectures
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Developer required

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at