Lead Software Engineer - Digital Assets

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 and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. 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 at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. ## **Job Description** This position will be responsible for the analysis, design, testing, development and maintenance of best in class software experiences. The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards in order to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles. **Essential Responsibilities:** - Lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of the bank’s Digital Assets and Tokenization Platform, supporting stablecoin payments, tokenized deposits, digital asset custody, and real-time settlement capabilities. - Design and build secure, scalable, highly available cloud-native microservices using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems principles. - Drive technical strategy, solution architecture, and engineering best practices across multiple Agile teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and business objectives. - Develop and enhance digital asset transaction processing, payment orchestration, settlement workflows, and blockchain connectivity services with a focus on resiliency, scalability, and performance. - Integrate enterprise applications with blockchain networks, digital asset custody providers, wallet platforms, payment rails, and core banking systems. - Architect and implement real-time transaction monitoring, ledger synchronization, reconciliation, exception management, and settlement processing solutions across traditional and blockchain ecosystems. - Establish and champion engineering standards including domain-driven design (DDD), API-first development, secure coding practices, CI/CD automation, observability, and operational excellence. - Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, Compliance, Risk, Security, and Business stakeholders to deliver compliant, secure, and innovative digital asset capabilities. - Mentor and develop engineers through technical leadership, design reviews, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and hands-on coaching while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. **Basic Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience - Six to eight years of relevant experience **Preferred Skills/Experience** - Expert in **Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, and Distributed Systems**. - Strong knowledge of **Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Design Patterns, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Event-Driven Architecture**. - Hands-on experience with **Apache Kafka, Messaging Platforms, Event Streaming, and Asynchronous Processing**. - Expertise in **Azure and/or AWS**, including **Cloud-Native Architecture, Kubernetes, Containerization, Scalability, and Resiliency**. - Experience building **Payments, Transaction Processing, Real-Time Settlement, Ledger, and Financial Services Platforms**. - Knowledge of **Blockchain Technologies** including **Ethereum, Hyperledger, Besu, Canton, Corda, Smart Contracts, and Tokenization Platforms**. - Experience with **Digital Asset Custody, Wallet Solutions, and Key Management Platforms** such as **Fireblocks, BitGo, or similar**. - Understanding of **Cryptography, Public/Private Key Infrastructure (PKI), MPC, HSMs, Digital Signing, and Secure Transaction Authorization**. -…