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Senior Software Engineer

Technology

Johnston, Rhode Island

Description

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 Recruiting@Citizensbank.com with subject line: 48435.

Direct applicants only. 

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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.

Background Check

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the candidate successfully passing a background check, which may include initial credit, motor vehicle record, public record, prior employment verification, and criminal background checks. Results of the background check are individually reviewed based upon legal requirements imposed by our regulators and with consideration of the nature and gravity of the background history and the job offered. Any offer of employment will include further information.

Benefits

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more.

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Awards We've Received

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Disability:IN World's Top Disability Inclusive Business

2026 Glassdoor Award

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Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index 100 Award

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Newsweek America's Most Charitable Company

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The Banker's
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