Senior Application Development Engineer

If you’re looking for a meaningful career, you’ll find it here at Webster. Founded in 1935, our focus has always been to put people first--doing whatever we can to help individuals, families, businesses and our colleagues achieve their financial goals. As a leading commercial bank, we remain passionate about serving our clients and supporting our communities. Integrity, Collaboration, Accountability, Agility, Respect, Excellence are Webster’s values, these set us apart as a bank and as an employer.  

Come join our team where you can expand your career potential, benefit from our robust development opportunities, and enjoy meaningful work!

The Senior Application Development Engineer owns a wide range of applications and services. This position will collaborate with your agile scrum team to successfully design, build, and maintain business-critical solutions with attention to scalability, extensibility, performance, and security.

What you will do

• Analyze, design, code, test, and implement solutions of high complexity.
• Define and own the front-end and mobile architecture across web and native platforms.
• Lead development using Vue.js for web applications and React Native for cross-platform mobile solutions, with native iOS and Android expertise where required.
• Establish best practices for performance, accessibility, scalability, and maintainability.
• Drive consistency in UI/UX patterns across platforms while enabling platform-appropriate experiences.
• Contribute to validation of Epics and User Stories through the backlog refinement process with your scrum team.
• Collaborate with scrum team on solution architecture and technical design decisions to solve new or existing business problems.
• Build and maintain systems with current or emerging technologies while leveraging and expanding system capabilities.
• Hold self and others accountable for clean testable code in adherence with coding standards and best practices.
• Conduct peer code reviews by providing comments and suggestions.
• Utilize software code version control and defect management tools.
• Perform unit testing before releasing code to QA.
• Participate in structured walkthroughs and technical reviews.
• Create documentation, flowcharts, diagrams, layouts, and charts to demonstrate sound solutions.
• When business critical situations arise, some evening and/or weekend work required to support production deployments, critical incidents, or critical projects.

Skills and Abilities

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and technical initiatives.
• Proven ability programming in Vue.js, Typescript, Javascript, and React Native.
• Native iOS and Android
• Hands-on experience owning and operating mobile deployment pipelines.
• Solid understanding of front-end security principles and secure mobile development.
• Experience working in regulated environments (banking, FinTech, or similar).
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth, OpenID Connect, MFA).
• Database design and programming with TSQL in MS SQL Server.
• Knowledge of Design Patterns, programming best practices, and SDLC, and modern CI/CD tools.
• Understanding of structure analysis, technical design, and database and file access methods.
• Designing and implement clean architecture in software solutions.
• Knowledge and experience working within Agile.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in directly related field required

Experience Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant focus on UI and mobile development.
• Experience with scalability and security implementation required
• Experience with Azure, iOS and Android native application development required

The estimated salary range for this position is $115,000.00 to $140,000.00. Actual salary may vary up or down depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position is eligible for incentive compensation.

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Webster Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries (“Webster”) are equal opportunity employers that are committed to sustaining an inclusive environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.