Senior React Engineer

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): Arizona, North Carolina or Texas.

We are looking for a Senior React Engineer to help design and build pages of our Online Banking application. The ideal candidate should have the necessary skills and experience to provide technical guidance, estimation of efforts, understanding and decide upon the optimal technology solution to achieve the desired business needs. You should be able to navigate differing levels of gray/unknowns, have excellent communication skills with other IT management levels, individual contributors, and business stakeholders, and be ready to provide day to day application support.  You will 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. You must take both the short-term tactical and long-term strategic view when deciding on the best technical approach.  You must be able to develop code and effectively oversee distributed development team members. 

Once Here you Will:

• Join a pod of developers and automation engineers supported by a product manager and scrum master, and collaborate with other Online Banking pods.
• Collaborate with Product and business owners to understand the business domain & products sufficiently to suggest best design / implementation to meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Spend most of your time on the design of systems, while maintaining a substantial percentage of time dedicated to hands-on implementation activities.
• Gain a solid hands-on knowledge of our client-facing web application, our microservices, our data architecture and databases, and our internal supporting systems and how they integrate with each other.
• Become a subject matter expert in one or more technical environments and deliver frameworks or standards to help other engineers follow best practices.
• Estimate (t-shirt) large features and releases as needed.
• Break down large feature sets in a way that other team members can understand, lead them to a successful implementation/release, and train them to do this themselves.
• 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.

Additional Duties:

• Perform impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions.
• Look for additional solution options or trade-offs, and identify cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions. (e.g. people, processes, technology, strategy, finance)
• Conduct group training sessions or lunch and learns.
• Come up with ideas for refreshing old processes and work with product manager or team lead to get these approved and document all updates to processes.
• Identify opportunities for refactoring and other tech debt remediation efforts throughout the code base that can be included in normal delivery activities.
• Leverage your extensive experience in previous projects to guard code quality and take opportunities to mentor junior engineers.
• Lend a hand in architecture and design discussions for other engineers, considering knowledge of the existing code base.
• Help mentor other team members in large scale feature planning.
• Express what you know comfortably and confidently, especially during code reviews.
• Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
• Always work to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you.
• Accept feedback with eagerness to learn more. We value continued learning and development, so you will learn a lot.

The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive. 

Qualifications:

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

Preferred Skills:

• 8+ years of Front End/UI focused Software Engineer experience
• Solid experience with React 16+, Redux, Mobx Store Management, Node.js, Typescript, ES6, CSS3, CSS Preprocessors, Grid Layout Knowledge, Jest Test  
• Very well versed and practical experience with Agile/Iterative delivery methodologies  
• Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code – Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore
• Ability to influence the architecture and design
• Ability to analyze and trouble shoot production issues Experience with TDD and CICD delivery
• Experience with distributed systems and with Micro-services architecture
• Hands-on experience with RESTful web services, web applications, transactional databases
• Experience with enterprise integration services/solutions Experience and exposure to API gateways  
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Docker and Jenkins  
• Bonus points for experience with regulated financial organizations 

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 https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.