Associate, Software Engineer

Associate, Software Engineer

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG's shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges. In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization's extensive global network. The Group's operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $104,000.00 and $170,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

Front-end software development work: Developing, updating, and debugging Typescript/React based web application user interfaces supporting initiatives as set forth by the Head of Technology and the Executive Director responsible for overall User Interface strategy.

Replace and/or integrate legacy systems: Connect user interfaces to data sources through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided by other teams. Assist in application functionality maturation levels required to sunlight older applications and ease customer transition to these newer, modern, systems.

Run daily scrums, JIRA grooming: Scrums are daily team meetings in which members provide updates on tasks, raise any issues/dependencies that could potentially block them from completing their tasks. JIRA tickets describe the individual tasks that are assigned to each developer, assist in properly estimating time to complete and complexity of implementation.

Evaluate and propose technical designs: Review current technical/programming design patterns and assess potential improvements in efficiency/modernization.

Follow Software development lifecycle: Design, Develop, Test, Deploy, and Maintain assigned development tasks.

Create documentation, flowcharts, diagrams, code comments: Document major development efforts, provide logic flow diagrams, and comments in code bases indicating intent of developed implementations.

Monitor, collect, and analyze software or system issues: Develop code logic tests/expectations and analyze current code quality reports and error logs.

Qualifications and Skills

Contribute to team code review requests and provide input into potential change suggestions/updates

Contribute to overall application quality test automation initiatives, including test creations, executions, updates

Support and adhere to application feature release cadences and processes

Continually assess current developer ways of working and provide retrospective improvement suggestions/recommendations

SMBC's employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at View email address on click.appcast.io.