Software Engineering Manager - Java Full Stack - Payments

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Job Description
Job Description: Senior Software Engineering Manager – MMC (India)
About The Role
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead engineering delivery for the Money Movement Capability (MMC) application in India. This leader will play a critical role in building and scaling U.S. Bank's India engineering presence for MMC by managing a high-performing team of software developers and quality engineers, strengthening engineering practices, and partnering closely with U.S.-based leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
This is a managerial leadership role for a technically strong engineering leader who can operate with broad direction, focus on the bigger picture, and drive execution across multiple domains. The ideal candidate combines deep technical experience with people leadership, architectural judgment, delivery rigor, and a strong understanding of payments systems. This role requires business knowledge in the Payments domain, including Zelle, RTP, and FedNow, along with the ability to build software products that are scalable, reliable, maintainable, and aligned to business strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & India Organization Build-Out
Lead, grow, and develop a team of engineers and QEs in India supporting the MMC application
Help establish and scale the India engineering organization, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, and creating a strong engineering culture for U.S. Bank
Drive career development, technical mentoring, performance management, and succession planning across the team
Create an accountable, inclusive, and high-performing environment focused on quality, ownership, and continuous improvement
Engineering Delivery & Execution
Manage under broad direction and objectives, with a focus on business outcomes, delivery quality, and operational stability
Drive execution of the product roadmap on time and within budget while ensuring security, compliance, and reliability of core systems
Guide teams toward strong coding practices, solid software design decisions, and high-quality delivery with minimal disruption to production
Set expectations across the organization and ensure dependencies, risks, and delivery constraints are identified and addressed early
Promote urgency, prioritization, and thoughtful trade-off decisions aligned to organizational strategy
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Provide high-level architectural guidance and help teams align solution design to business requirements, enterprise standards, and regulatory needs
Ensure technical designs are clear, well thought out, and account for dependencies, failure states, maintainability, testability, scalability, and ease of support
Develop and maintain high-level and detailed architecture designs for complex technology solutions across multiple platforms, frameworks, and languages
Lead architectural review sessions and technical design discussions across the organization
Simplify product and technical design where possible to improve speed, resilience, and supportability
Cross-Team Strategy & Stakeholder Partnership
Partner with business leaders, product managers, architects, and engineering teams in an agile environment to gather requirements and drive execution
Participate in roadmap discussions and provide feedback to product and business teams based on engineering strategy, technical constraints, and delivery considerations
Understand adjacent teams' business domains and influence cross-team decisions to deliver business value efficiently
Communicate technical decisions, architecture strategies, and delivery risks effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Quality, Operations & Incident Leadership
Drive a culture of quality, timely code reviews, release readiness, and engineering discipline across the organization
Coach teams on systematic debugging, problem diagnosis, and effective use of tools for troubleshooting
Lead incident response as needed and establish processes and tooling that improve issue detection, root-cause analysis, and repeat-issue prevention
Ensure teams proactively handle risk, change, and ambiguity, escalating concerns early with practical solution options
Technical Scope
The Senior Software Engineering Manager is expected to bring strong hands-on technical credibility and experience building modern distributed systems. This role will guide teams delivering software products and APIs in a payments ecosystem with high expectations for availability, performance, resiliency, and compliance.
Expected technical experience includes:
Experience building highly maintainable, extensible, and testable distributed systems
Experience in microservices and API development using Java and Spring Boot
Experience designing low-latency, high-throughput applications built for scalability and reliability
Experience implementing user interfaces against REST APIs
Experience with Kafka, event-driven patterns, and open-source technologies used in modern application development
Experience with containerization and platform tooling such as Kubernetes, Rancher, Istio, Apigee, Jenkins/CloudBees, and GitLab
Familiarity with source control management best practices, DevOps principles, and agile software delivery lifecycle practices
Experience troubleshooting complex technical issues and driving resolution in production environments
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
10 to 12 years of relevant technical experience
5 or more years of leading a software engineering team
Proven experience leading software engineers and offshore teams to deliver complex products with multiple stakeholders
Strong understanding of software development processes, architecture, and engineering tools in enterprise environments
Comprehensive knowledge of how business strategy aligns with technical and engineering strategy
Strong analytical, planning, leadership, and communication skills
Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, product owners, scrum masters, business partners, vendors, and customers
Preferred Qualifications
Business domain knowledge in Payments, especially ACH, Wires, Zelle, RTP, and FedNow
Experience in Business Banking, Payment Services, Financial Services, or other regulated industries
Advanced knowledge of distributed systems architecture, microservices architecture, API management, and integration platforms
Experience overseeing integration of new systems and technologies into existing environments
Experience balancing technical debt, feature delivery, and operational reliability at scale
Certifications in Java, Spring, Microservices, Cloud, or Azure are a plus
Leadership Profile
The ideal candidate is a leader who:
Thinks beyond a single team and considers impacts across multiple domains
Has a complete understanding of the team's domain, key features, affected users, impacted flows, and business purpose
Takes initiative to clarify ambiguity, identify risk early, and guide teams toward sound decisions
Fosters a culture of strong design patterns, coding standards, quality engineering, and accountable delivery
Brings a mix of technical acumen, strategic thinking, execution discipline, and talent-building capability
Can represent the India team effectively while partnering across global stakeholders and enterprise functions
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.

Work arrangement
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