Senior Software Engineer - JAVA

4 Days in the office from any of our locations in Johnston RI, Iselin NJ, Westwood or Medford MA, or Phoenix AZ and couple other locations

Role is not relocation eligible. 

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with and mentor a talented team of engineers while driving a wide range of technology initiatives. Leveraging your technical expertise and passion for innovation, you will help build modern, high‑impact solutions that strengthen Citizens’ competitive position. You will contribute to multiple applications across our consumer banking ecosystem and play a key role in shaping future technology direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, modify, develop, and deliver technology solutions that align with strategic business objectives.

• Build modern, scalable, and well-architected components, tools, and applications.
• Operate within an Agile environment, following best practices and collaborating closely with your team.
• Integrate quality attributes—such as scalability, maintainability, and manageability—into distributed, service-based architectures.
• Apply insights from previous experience to enhance design decisions and support the goals of customer-facing products.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with a strong track record of launching commercial products

• 3+ years of experience gathering requirements, creating software designs, and producing efficient implementations
• Strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Solid hands-on expertise with Angular, Java, JavaScript, API development, Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, microservices, micro frontends, and event-driven architectures

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of banking industry operations, particularly custodial and consumer banking

• Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
• Bash and Linux proficiency
• Experience with full-stack development
• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect)
• Strong understanding of data structures (arrays, dictionaries, linked lists, custom objects, etc.)
• Docker fundamentals and Kubernetes deployment understanding
• CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
• Strong grasp of REST, caching, and browser security (CSP, OAuth flows)

Education and Certifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Pay Transparency 

The salary range for this position is $ 107,360 - $ 161,000 per year plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to the work location, and relevant skills and experience.   

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of very local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits.

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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