Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its Johnston, Rhode Island location.
Responsibilities:
• Designs, modifies, develops, and implements technology solutions. Builds modern, architecturally sound components, tools and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals.
• Works closely with product owners to understand and translate business objectives into technical requirements.
• Participates in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices and collaborating effectively with teammates.
• Infuses quality of service characteristics, such as scalability, manageability and maintainability, into distributed service-based framework to create or expand business or technical capabilities.
• Contributes insights when considering design specifications, considering the goals of the consumer-facing product.
• Develops and documents best practices for team collaboration, estimating, productivity, software architecture, technical design, and documentation.
Qualifications:
Requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Information Technology, Electronic Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience as Senior Software Engineer, Consultant – Engineering, or related position involving designing and developing web applications.
Must have 3 years of experience with the following:
• Designing and developing multi-Tier applications using programming languages and technologies including JAVA-J2EE and Web Services using microservice & monolith architecture;
• Designing and developing web applications using Spring and Spring Boot framework, Node JS, Angular, HTML, CSS, jQuery and AJAX;
• Utilizing Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Cassandra and TimesTen for database development;
• Utilizing frameworks Hibernate and Sequelize ORM for database connectivity;
• Utilizing JAX-RS(Jersey) for creating and consuming RESTful Web Services;
• Utilizing tools, including Eclipse, IntelliJ, VSCode, Azure Management Studio Squirrel, Toad, HP QC, Gerrit, Crucible and Datadog for development;
• Utilizing unit testing frameworks including JUnit, Mockito, TestNG, Jasmine;
• Utilizing SOLID principles for application architecture design;
• Utilizing application build settings, including Ant and Maven;
• Utilizing API definition markup languages, including YAML, for defining web services;
• Utilizing Log4j for application logs and error logs framework;
• Utilizing Atlassian tech stacks, including JIRA, Crucible, and Bitbucket to plan, assign, track, report, and manage work, review tickets against committed code, and manage repositories; and
• Utilizing issue management and version control systems, including GIT, SVN, VSS, JIRA, and Service Now.
Remote work permitted 4 days per week.
Worksite: One Citizens Bank Way, Johnston, RI 02919 United States, 40 hrs/wk. EO employer.
For summary of benefits and to apply visit our website at https://jobs.citizensbank.com and apply online (Job ID: 48435) or email resume and cover letter to [email protected] with subject line: 48435.
Direct applicants only.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Electronic Engineering, or related field (or foreign equivalent)
- 3 years experience as Senior Software Engineer, Consultant - Engineering, or related role designing and developing web applications
- Designing and developing multi-tier applications using Java and J2EE and Web Services (microservice & monolith)
- Developing web applications using Spring and Spring Boot, Node.js, Angular, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and AJAX
- Database development experience with Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Cassandra, and TimesTen
- Using ORM frameworks Hibernate and Sequelize for database connectivity
- Creating and consuming RESTful web services using JAX-RS (Jersey)
- Experience with development tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ, VSCode, Azure Management Studio, Squirrel, Toad, HP QC, Gerrit, Crucible, Datadog
- Unit testing experience with JUnit, Mockito, TestNG, and Jasmine
- Apply SOLID principles for application architecture design
- Experience with build tools Ant and Maven
- API definition experience using YAML
- Logging frameworks experience with Log4j
- Experience with Atlassian stack (JIRA, Crucible, Bitbucket) and issue/version control systems (Git, SVN, VSS, JIRA, ServiceNow)
Citizens Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Citizens and has not been reviewed or approved by Citizens.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is described as six weeks at 100% pay for all new parents, with up to 16 weeks for birthing parents. Family-building and caregiving supports include more than $25,000 in adoption assistance and up to 10 days of backup care.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes 11 paid holidays and up to 27 PTO days, with materials encouraging employees to use their time. This breadth is frequently positioned as a core strength of the total rewards package.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay practices are presented as equitable, with disclosures citing near-parity by gender and no gaps for people of color in similar roles. Transparency shows up in posted hourly ranges for retail roles, and some markets list banker pay at competitive levels.
Citizens Insights
What We Do
As one of the oldest and largest financial services firms in the United States with a history dating back to 1828, we’re committed to providing solutions and expertise that support our customers, clients, colleagues, and communities in what’s next on their own unique journey. We invest in the humans who build the logic, ideas, and innovations that bring new technologies to life. Investments in AI, cloud computing, machine learning and automation provide our engineers the tools that enable us to remain competitive and win in today’s environment. At Citizens, we recognize that the journey to accomplishment is no longer linear and that individuals are made of all they have done and all they are going to do. Whether you’re considering banking with us or looking to work with us, you’ll find a customer-centric culture and a supportive, collaborative workforce at Citizens. You’re made ready and so are we. If you're ready to advance your career in technology and security, learn more about opportunity's Citizens offers here: https://jobs.citizensbank.com/digital-transformation
Why Work With Us
We empower the colleagues that power our tech. With growth & upskilling opportunities and sought-after benefits, plus a diverse culture of people and perspectives, we help our colleagues achieve career goals. Because innovation can’t happen without the minds and hearts of our people. Technology is constantly evolving, and we believe you can too.
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