Senior Java Developer - Coaching & Delivery

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.

We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.

Job Description

This role is intended for an experienced software engineer who will act as the primary day‑to‑day coach and facilitator for a distributed delivery team, with particular responsibility for developing Agile maturity and cloud‑native engineering capability among offshore engineers.

While remaining hands‑on, success in this role will be measured primarily by team effectiveness, adoption of sound engineering practices, and capability uplift rather than individual feature throughput.

Team Context

This role sits within a cross‑functional agile team comprising an Engineering Lead (technical architecture and delivery assurance), a Technical Product Manager, and a group of offshore software engineers with a mix of recent joiners and experienced practitioners.

The successful candidate will act as the primary in‑team coach, ensuring that Agile practices, engineering standards, and cloud‑native development approaches are consistently understood and applied across the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary Agile practices coach within the team, supporting offshore engineers in effective participation in Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, estimation, and continuous improvement.

• Serve as the main day‑to‑day technical and delivery mentor for a distributed team of offshore engineers, with particular responsibility for developing cloud‑native engineering capability and helping newer team members rapidly become effective within Elavon’s engineering, compliance, and operational context.

• Embrace and promote Agile values such as iterative development, customer collaboration and adaptability.

• Design, develop and maintain scalable and resilient microservice applications using Java and Spring Boot, while setting patterns and standards that enable other engineers to deliver consistently and independently.

• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Rancher.

• Collaborate with engineers and product managers, demonstrating a T-shaped skillset with deep expertise in software development and broad capabilities across software design, development, testing and CI/CD.

• Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles in collaboration with product owners and domain experts.

Required Skills

• Proven experience in software development with a focus on application integration and cloud-native microservice applications.

• Demonstrated experience acting as a senior or lead engineer within a team, providing technical coaching and delivery guidance without formal people‑management authority.

• Substantial experience working in Agile teams, including coaching other engineers in Agile principles, ceremonies, and delivery discipline, and helping teams move from theory into effective practice.

• Proven experience in application‑level database design and data modelling, with particular emphasis on PostgreSQL, including operating and optimising PostgreSQL‑backed services in cloud environments (e.g. Amazon RDS or Aurora PostgreSQL).

• Proficiency in:

  • Java and Spring Boot

  • Integration frameworks such as Apache Camel or Spring Integration

  • Kubernetes and/or Rancher

  • Event streaming using Kafka

  • JSON and JSONSchema

  • Unit testing frameworks (e.g. JUnit)

• Practical experience applying Domain‑Driven Design (DDD) in collaborative, product‑led environments.

• Advanced proficiency in both spoken and written English.

Additional Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of event-driven architecture and the Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP).

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, Azure 2nd choice), including experience helping other engineers build and operate cloud‑native services safely and consistently.

• An interest in artificial intelligence, particularly in how it can be used to enhance software development practices, would be advantageous.

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools.

• Understanding of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices and tools (e.g. JUnit and Cucumber).

• Familiarity with Istio or other service mesh.

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in cloud environments such as AWS (e.g. using Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS CloudFormation etc.).

• Acquaintance with principles of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

Location expectations 

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week

Accessibility

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or hiring process, please contact your recruiter for guidance and support.

Total Rewards

U.S. Bank is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in line with local regulatory and legal requirements. Our total rewards approach is designed to attract, retain, and support top talent while ensuring equal pay for work of equal value.

We offer a market-competitive compensation package that includes:

• Clearly defined salary ranges aligned with industry benchmarks and internal equity standards.

• Performance-based incentives for eligible employees (as defined by relevant plan rules), awarded through transparent, objective criteria that recognize both individual and company performance.

• Inclusive equitable benefits that are accessible to all employees and focused around our 3 main pillars of financial wellbeing, health & wellness).

• Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways based on inclusive and transparent criteria.

• Employee recognition programs that celebrate achievements and milestones for all.

We regularly review our compensation and benefits to ensure they remain competitive, inclusive, and responsive to employee needs and market trends. Further details of the compensation package will be provided upon application.

We encourage candidates to explore the full value of our offer, including monetary and non-monetary benefits, at Employee benefits and development | U.S. Bank | Elavon.

Closing Date

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

We aim to provide timely updates throughout the process and encourage early applications to ensure consideration.