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About the Role

This is a remote, hands-on engineering leadership position for an experienced Technical Lead who enjoys building software, solving complex technical challenges, influencing architecture, and helping teams deliver exceptional customer experiences at scale. The role serves as a connection between Agile delivery pods and engineering leadership, partnering with various stakeholders to ensure digital banking platforms are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise technology standards. The ideal candidate is comfortable with code reviews, contributing code, discussing architecture, mentoring engineers, and shaping technical strategy.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across one or more Agile product pods delivering customer-facing digital banking capabilities.
Drive engineering excellence and promote modern software development practices.
Act as the primary technical point of contact between development teams and engineering leadership.
Translate architectural direction into actionable delivery plans and technical implementation strategies.
Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and platform roadmaps.
Facilitate technical discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decision-making.
Identify and proactively address technical risks, bottlenecks, and dependencies.
Remain actively involved in software design, development, troubleshooting, and delivery activities.
Contribute high-quality production code across backend services, APIs, integrations, and digital platforms.
Lead by example through hands-on participation in complex technical implementations.
Partner with engineers to resolve critical production issues and performance challenges.
Drive adoption of coding standards, engineering best practices, and reusable design patterns.
Review and approve technical designs, pull requests, and implementation approaches.
Design scalable, resilient, cloud-ready, and event-driven solutions.
Collaborate with enterprise and domain architects to define future-state architectures.
Lead technical solutioning for new digital banking products, customer journeys, and platform enhancements.
Promote API-first and event-driven architecture principles across the organization.
Drive microservices adoption, integration strategies, and system modernization initiatives.
Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities for innovation.
Work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and Engineers to deliver business value.
Participate in backlog refinement, technical estimation, sprint planning, and release planning activities.
Ensure technical requirements and non-functional requirements are understood and appropriately prioritized.
Coordinate cross-team dependencies and technical integrations.
Support successful execution of large-scale initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
Champion automated testing, quality engineering practices, and continuous improvement.
Partner closely with Quality Engineering teams to improve automation coverage and product quality.
Drive improvements in application reliability, performance, scalability, and observability.
Promote shift-left testing and DevSecOps principles throughout the software development lifecycle.
Implement and monitor engineering metrics focused on quality, delivery, reliability, and operational excellence.
Mentor and coach software engineers across varying experience levels.
Foster a culture of engineering ownership, learning, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Help teams navigate complex technical decisions and implementation challenges.
Influence technical direction through collaboration rather than authority.
Act as a trusted advisor to engineering managers, architects, and senior technology leaders.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience in Technical work in Application Development, Server Administration, Information Security, or Engineering OR High School Diploma or GED and 12 years of experience in Technical work in Application Development, Server Administration, Information Security, or Engineering
8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-scale applications.
2+ years of experience serving as a Technical Lead, Senior Engineer, Lead Developer, or equivalent technical leadership role.
Deep understanding of modern software architecture and distributed systems.
Strong experience leading technical discussions and influencing engineering decisions across teams.
Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Skills

Java
Spring Boot
REST APIs
OpenAPI standards
Event-Driven Architecture
Apache Kafka
Microservices architecture
Distributed systems design
Secure application development
Angular
React
TypeScript
Modern web application design
Component-based UI architecture
Storybook
Swift
Kotlin
Mobile application architecture
Native mobile development practices
GitHub
Azure DevOps
Kubernetes
Terraform
SonarQube
CI/CD pipelines
Infrastructure as Code
Containerization technologies
Cloud-native engineering practices
Selenium
Playwright
Cypress
Appium
Karate

Location

Work Type

Remote
Full-time

Experience Level

Experienced
8+ years of software engineering experience
2+ years of technical leadership experience

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree
High School Diploma or GED

Salary/Compensations

$150,000 - $180,000

Benefits

Competitive, thoughtfully designed, and quality benefits program

About the Company

First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates.