

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
U.S. Bank is seeking the position of Lead Engineer – Software Systems in Irving, Texas.
Essential Responsibilities:
The Lead Engineer – Software Systems provides technical leadership for engineering initiatives and establishes strategic approaches for system development. The role serves as a technical expert to evaluate, recommend, and integrate new technologies and innovations into existing systems. Responsibilities include mentoring and coaching junior engineers on
technical tasks, coding standards, and workflows, as well as designing, reviewing, and refining system architecture to ensure scalability, reliability, and alignment with business needs. The position leads engineering teams and provides ongoing technical and strategic direction while collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment on requirements and deliverables. Duties also include analyzing and resolving complex system-level technical issues, improving and optimizing the software development lifecycle, and establishing engineering best practices, coding standards, and guidelines. The role develops and proposes long-term technical roadmaps and architectural plans and supports development activities by contributing to system design considerations for scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability. Position may allow working from home within a commuting distance of worksite location. Multiple Positions.
Basic Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science or Information Technology plus 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience leading development teams, designing and maintaining complex software systems, and contributing to system architecture.
Required Skills/Experience:
Must possess 5 years of experience with all of the following: leading development efforts, including strategy, interaction design, prototyping, and usability validation; designing, developing, and maintaining scalable, responsive, and accessible single-page applications (SPAs); using modern web technologies including HTML, CSS/SCSS, and JavaScript; collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define requirements and deliver user-facing features; mentoring junior engineers; contributing to system architecture design, technical planning, and architecture grooming; optimizing performance through efficient code, fewer requests, async processing, and CDN-based delivery with compression and lazy loading; ensuring cross-browser compatibility; supporting full-stack development with APIs; enhancing system scalability, reliability, and performance; troubleshooting complex production issues, including browser-specific, mobile-only, and race-condition–related problems; establishing engineering best practices within an SDLC environment; and all of the following: JavaScript, ReactJS, VueJS, NodeJS, Git, and CI/CD. Position may allow working from home within a commuting distance of worksite location.
Base pay range may vary if an offer is made for work in a different location. Pay Range: $156, 998.00 - $196,100. (#LI-NDI #LI-DNI #LI-DNP #DE-DNP #IND-DNP).
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.
Benefits:
Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Review our full benefits available by employment status here.
U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.
E-Verify
U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.
In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.
Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.