Lead Software Engineer - Direct Transactions
Company: First Citizens Bank
Location: Raleigh, NC (Remote)
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-02-04
About this role
Overview
This is a remote role that may be hired in the following locations: North Carolina, Arizona, Texas
We are looking for a hands-on Lead Software Engineer who provides technology solutions and integration services in following areas: Payments & Money movement, information reporting. The ideal candidate should have the necessary skills and experience to provide technical guidance, estimation of efforts, understanding and deciding upon the optimal technology solution to achieve the desired business needs, day to day application support, should be able to navigate differing levels of gray/unknowns, and have excellent communication skills with other IT management levels, individual contributors, and business stakeholders. They must be able to 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. They must have both the short- and long-term strategic view when deciding on the best technical approach. They must be able to develop code and effectively oversee distributed development team members.
This role will be responsible for leading all software aspects within the team including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing and supporting them.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Provide development leadership (Architecture, Strategy, Design, Development) on our Client facing Payments platforms.
- Drive department best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
- Innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail.
- Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
- Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore.
- Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty.
- Always working to i...