At U.S. Bancorp India, we’re on a journey to do our best. 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. Bancorp India gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
1. Global Engineering Leadership & India Expansion
Establish a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Drive talent strategy across hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning.
Foster an inclusive, accountable environment that promotes collaboration, technical excellence, and leadership growth.
2. Platform Engineering & Architecture (Acquisition & Underwriting)
Establish reusable platform capabilities (decisioning, identity, fraud, KYC, and data integration) consumable across products, channels, and partners.
3. Execution, Delivery & Operational Performance
Ensure predictable, on-time, and within-budget execution while meeting security, compliance, and reliability standards.
Promote strong engineering practices, including high-quality code, sound design decisions, and production stability.
Proactively manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and strategic goals.
4. Technical Leadership & Architectural Governance
Provide strategic architectural direction, aligning solutions to business needs, enterprise standards, and regulatory requirements.
Ensure designs are scalable, resilient, maintainable, and testable, with clear handling of dependencies and failure scenarios.
5. Cross-Functional Strategy & Stakeholder Engagement
Partner with product, business, risk, and architecture leaders to define and deliver acquisition and underwriting capabilities.
Influence roadmap decisions by balancing engineering strategy, customer experience, risk, and delivery constraints.
6. Resiliency, Risk & Operational Excellence
The Senior Software Engineering Manager is expected to bring strong hands-on technical leadership and credibility in designing and delivering modern, distributed, and scalable platforms. This role leads engineering teams building API-first acquisition and Open Banking solutions, with a focus on real-time decisioning, resiliency, performance, and regulatory compliance.
Core Technical Expectations
Design and build highly scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on modularity, extensibility, and testability.
Lead development of microservices, APIs, SDKs, and front-end components (MFE) using Java, Spring Boot, and modern UI frameworks aligned to API-driven architectures.
Leverage cloud-native and container-based platforms, including Kubernetes, Istio, Rancher, and API gateways (Apigee), to enable scalability, observability, and secure service communication
Establish modern DevOps and CI/CD practices using tools such as Jenkins/CloudBees and GitLab, ensuring automated testing, deployment, and release management.
Enforce best practices in source control, code quality, and agile delivery, driving consistency, speed, and reliability across engineering teams.
Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues, ensuring rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and continuous system improvement.
Ability to translate business strategy into technology and engineering outcomes, driving alignment across product, risk, and engineering.
Strong analytical, planning, leadership, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
Proven ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, scrum teams, business stakeholders, and external partners.
Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries, with an understanding of risk, compliance, and security requirements.
Advanced knowledge of distributed systems, microservices architecture, API platforms, and event-driven integration patterns.
Experience with cloud-native platforms and engineering ecosystems (Azure, containers, CI/CD, API management).
The ideal candidate is a leader who:
Thinks and operates at a platform and ecosystem level, considering impacts across domains, customer journeys, and partner integrations.
Demonstrates deep understanding of end-to-end acquisition and underwriting flows, including users, systems, and business outcomes.
Proactively addresses ambiguity, risks, and dependencies, guiding teams toward sound, data-driven decisions.
Builds a culture of strong engineering fundamentals, including design patterns, coding standards, quality engineering, and accountability.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
This is an U.S. Bancorp India posting. U.S. Bancorp India is a part of the U.S. Bank family.
