API Software Engineer Lead, VP

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Job Summary

In this role you will manage, lead, mentor and build a talented software engineering team to deliver leading applications, best customer experience, flexible/scalable microservices integrations across all touch points.

Collaborate with various stakeholders from end-to-end in MUFG by working with technology to drive product implementations, system development, leveraging cutting-edge solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms

Build awareness, increase knowledge, and drive adoption of modern technologies and architecture patterns, sharing customer and engineering benefits to gain buy-in

Oversee projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines

Thorough knowledge of complex application design and programming activities in the latest related technologies: IONIC 4+, Angular 13+, Capacitor, FireBase, HTML5+, CSS, Cordova, PhoneGap frameworks, objective C, Swift, Android, Xcode, Android Studio,REST, JSON, AJAX, API/Services, J2EE, Hibernate, MQ, SQL, Oracle, JBoss, MQ, OpenShift, Apache, microservices, AWS/Cloud infrastructure, Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins

Provide technical leadership in terms of architecting applications, mentoring developers, making smart technology decisions, and more

Deliver projects that adhere to continuous delivery practices with automated unit testing, integration testing, and performance testing pipelines

Responsibilities:

• "Strong leadership, people management, and influencing skills
• Ability to constructively work both independently and in collaborative environments involving all levels of management and employees
• Provide technical leadership in terms of architecting applications, mentoring developers, making smart technology decisions, etc.

• Effectively communicate with and influence key stakeholders across the enterprise, at all levels of the organization
• Ability to successfully delivery results in a highly matrixed environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate findings clearly and effectively to wide variety of audiences including senior management
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple priorities concurrently, prioritize, and efficiently complete responsibilities while maintaining the highest quality
• Strong work ethic, ability to make decisions and work under tight deadlines; achievement-oriented and takes initiative
• Strong Experience with managing resources (people, tools and/or budget) effectively to execute required functions
• Effectively manage risks and ensure remediation plans that adhere to issues management mandates, timely issue and corrective action submission, accurate root cause identification, corrective action monitoring, on time closure, no failed validations, and no repeat issue

Qualifications / Work experience

• "5+ years of enterprise application management, project execution of API using Java, microservices, IONIC, Angular, CSS, HTML, React, React Native, FireBase, batch processing.
• 5+ years of experience managing teams in Agile environments and extensive knowledge
• Experience in banking, financial service industry.
• Solid experience leading and mentoring an engineer team with a wide range of skills mobile application front end, back end, APIs, QA, and DevOps
• Extensive experience on-prem OpenShift infrastructure and major public cloud offerings and how to solution designs that are built around these technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and similar)
• Experience leading technical iteration on the design, development, documentation, testing, and deployment of platform user interface features
• 6+ years of prior experience with building mobile application with multi-tier applications/integrations which are highly performant and scalable
• Minimum 5 years of experience in developing at all levels of the application stack (front end/UI, middle/services and back end/database) using Java and related frameworks (IONIC, Angular, React, CSS, HTML, Hibernate, Spring Boot, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes, and AWS, Azure, or any cloud provider

Previous Work experience

• "Demonstrated strong organization skills and managing resources (people, tools and/or budget) effectively to execute required functions
• Solid experience in leading/managing technical software design and development experience in, API, micro-services 
• Demonstrated strong technical design knowhow, development guidance, coordinating across functional teams and supporting multiple parallel initiatives
• Strong record of projects deliveries in building mobile, distributed, multi-tier applications which are highly performant and scalable
• Successfully implementing and maintaining mobile application, enterprise web applications, APIs (REST/RESTful), database
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Experience OpenShift, Kubernetes, and AWS, Azure, or any cloud provider

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience

The typical base pay range for this role is between $145K - $182K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.