At U.S. Bancorp India, we’re on a journey to do our best. 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. Bancorp India 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.

Be a part of transformational change where integrity matters, success inspires and great teams collaborate and innovate. As the fifth-largest bank in the United States, we’re one of the country's most respected, innovative, ethical and successful financial institutions. We’re looking for people who want more than just a job - they want to make a difference! U.S. Bank is seeking a Software Engineer who will contribute toward the success of our technology initiatives in our digital transformation journey.

Essential Responsibilities :

- Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
- Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
- Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
- Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
- Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
- Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures




- Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
- Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
- Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank’s technology transformation
- Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
- Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Twelve or more years of experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

- Proven experience leading multiple SRE, production engineering , or platform operations teams in a global and matrixed operating model, with strong exposure to offshore/onshore delivery structures, preferably in Banking and Financial Services.
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Linux systems, network ing fundamentals, distributed systems, API gateways such as Apigee, and infrastructure automation.




- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps and Agile practices, scripting languages, infrastructure as code, release engineering, and automated operational workflows.
- Experience with observability and diagnostics platforms, telemetry pipelines, incident management tooling, configuration management, and s ervice governance , including tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Firebug, Fiddler, HttpWatch, or similar monitoring and tracing solutions.
- Ability to review architecture and operational designs with a focus on scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, performance bottlenecks, and predictable service behavior in production.
- Good understanding of relational and NoSQL databases , including MS SQL Server or similar RDBMS platforms, with the ability to support performance analysis and operational stability.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across global engineering teams, product teams, platform teams, and senior leadership.
- Robust decision-making ability with a focus on business continuity, failure risk, service reliability, engineering trade-offs, and calm execution during major incidents.
- High ownership mindset with the ability to balance technical depth, operational discipline, architecture awareness, customer impact, and people leadership.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.

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