Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

About the position

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): NC and TX. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a division of First Citizens Bank, is the bank of the world's most innovative companies and investors. SVB provides commercial and private banking to individuals and companies in the technology, life science and healthcare, private equity, venture capital and premium wine industries. SVB operates in centers of innovation throughout the United States, serving the unique needs of its dynamic clients with deep sector expertise, insights, and connections. SVB's parent company, First Citizens Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets. First Citizens Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more at svb.com. We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join our FX (Foreign Exchange) technology team. 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.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all software aspects for FX applications including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and support.
• Requires strong technical expertise, financial domain knowledge (preferably in FX), and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Design and develop robust, scalable, and low-latency software components for FX trading platforms, including pricing engines, trade execution and settlement.
• Build and maintain APIs and services to support integration with internal systems and third-party platforms.
• Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Drive department best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
• Create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail.
• Build elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
• Passion for abstracting and refactoring code.
• Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Work 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 needs 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.
• Identify cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions.
• Create and maintain application architecture and related assets.
• Be the go-to person for development team on architecture discussions.
• Supervise release processes (some after-hours/weekend work may be required).
• Participate in production support and troubleshoot critical FX trading issues in a timely manner.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance.

Nice-to-haves

• Current contractor/contingent worker for First Citizens Bank.
• Knowledge of First Citizens Bank systems and processes.
• System development experience for medium to large sized enterprise projects.
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot production issues.
• Working knowledge on AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, OpenShift, Terraform.
• Strong proficiency and hands-on experience in Design and Development of distributed systems.
• Development experience with Java/J2EE, Restful Webservices, Node, React.
• Experience building SpringBoot Microservices.
• Preferred experience on public API development and using API Gateway like APiGEE.
• File-based transfer applications (e.g. Sterling, SFTP, etc).
• Experience with messaging and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka).
• Strong proficiency and hands-on experience in Design and Development RDBMS architecture and performance tuning systems like Oracle/MS-SQL/SQL Server and NoSQL databases.
• Worked on Agile projects and has complete knowledge of day to day Agile routines.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol, SWIFT messaging, or financial APIs.
• Experience with FX or Payments Technology solutions using products ION's WSS, 360T, SWIFT integration or similar platforms.
• Banking/Payments Industry knowledge with experience delivering on large modernization/transformative efforts.

Benefits

• Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program.