About the role

Role overview

Senior Front-End Engineer (Remote) working on Client Assist Pages for an Online Banking application. The role blends full-stack responsibilities with strong front-end ownership, including technical guidance, estimation, design decisions, and day-to-day application support.

Responsibilities

Work in an Agile pod (with automation engineers) alongside a product manager and scrum master, collaborating with other Online Banking teams.
Partner with product and business owners to propose designs/implementations that meet user needs for functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
Spend most time on system design, while also implementing features hands-on.
Build and maintain strong working knowledge of the client-facing web app, microservices, data architecture, databases, and system integrations.
Act as a subject matter expert in one or more technical environments; contribute frameworks/standards and best practices.
Estimate and break down large features/releases so other engineers can execute and release successfully; train teams to do this independently.
Drive technical designs to consensus/approval through the Architecture Review Team.
Design and develop enterprise solutions (reusable frameworks, interfaces, services).
Perform impact analysis for architecture and technology changes; evaluate solution trade-offs and cost/benefit implications.
Conduct training (group sessions/lunch & learns), refresh processes with approvals, and document updates.
Identify and help deliver refactoring and technical debt remediation within normal delivery.
Mentor junior engineers, contribute to code reviews, and support quality improvements.

Requirements

Strong front-end engineering background and ability to develop production code.
Experience providing technical guidance, estimation, and making/justifying architecture or technology decisions.
Ability to oversee distributed development and coordinate execution across teams.
Excellent communication across IT management, individual contributors, and business stakeholders.
Ability to operate effectively with unknowns/gray areas and balance short-term execution with long-term strategy.

Nice-to-haves (implied)

Familiarity with microservices-based systems and enterprise web applications.
Experience mentoring and leading technical planning for large-scale features.
Exposure to architecture review processes and impact analysis.

About First Citizens Bank

First Citizens Bank is a financial services organization providing consumer and online banking products. The role sits within its Online Banking engineering teams, working on client-facing web applications and supporting microservices and data platforms.