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Principal Software Engineer - Commercial Trading (React JS) - Hybrid

Company:
Citizens Financial Group
Location:
Johnston, RI, 02919
Posted:
June 27, 2025
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Description:

Description

3 Days Hybrid from any of our locations in RI, Iselin NJ, MA, Charlotte NC, Pittsburgh PA, Dallas TX or Phoenix AZ

Role is not relocation eligible.

Job Title: Principal of Software Engineer

Responsibilities

Your role as Principal of Software Engineering is to work with engineering teams and architecture to produce high-quality technology solutions. You will be given the autonomy to lead, design and develop innovative solutions to some of the biggest technical issues facing the banking industry. As Principal, you will serve as a peer-leader tasked with pursuing cutting-edge initiatives and solutions. The breadth of Citizens operations ensures a diversity of projects as the bank pivots towards innovation and customer experience.

The Principal Software Engineer will be responsible for:

· Participating in an environment rapidly transforming to the Agile methodology, adhering to best practices and collaborating effectively with your teammates.

· Collaborating and contributing insight to solution design ideation, ensuring both the success of the product and adherence to enterprise architecture principles.

· Designing, modifying, developing and implementing software solutions. Building modern, architecturally sound components, tools and applications to meet mission-driven strategic business goals.

· Infusing quality of service characteristics, such as scalability, manageability and maintainability, into distributed service-based framework to create or expand business or technical capabilities.

· Employing industry best practices to evaluate, correct and prevent vulnerabilities during the software development process.

· Serving as a peer-leader, encouraging a culture of innovation and accountability while adhering to Agile best practices.

Required Qualifications

· 7+ years of hands-on software development, with proven experience in developing and supporting commercial trade software products which were sold to non-technical customers in vertical markets

· Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor software engineers

· 5+ years experience in querying, analyzing and managing big data

Mastery of multiple programming languages, including Python3, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, C, C++, etc.

Expertise in Java/Spring, Unit Testing for Java, General understanding of relational databases, including writing DDL, JS/React and Unit Testing for React

· AWS/AZURE/GCP experience, including managing sensitive assets

· Bash and Linux experience

· Experience with CICD pipeline (CircleCI, Jenkins, or equivalent)

· Strong communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills

· Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect

· Understand data structure concepts such as linked lists, dictionaries, arrays, custom object creation, etc

Desired Qualifications

· 3+ years of experience in the financial services industry, developing solutions for commercial banking, portfolio management, trading, compliance or wealth management

Experience working on Commercial Trade platforms, a plus

· Understanding of banking system and custodial and commercial banking operations

· Experience with Apache, Lucene, Memcache, RAbbitMQ and NoSQL

Education and Certifications

· Required: Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline

· Preferred: Master's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline

Pay Transparency

The salary range for this position is $ 127,520 - $ 191,280 per year plus an opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus. Actual pay is based on various factors including but not limited to the work location, and relevant skills and experience.

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, maternity/paternity leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs and more. Note, Citizens’ paid time off policy exceeds the mandatory, paid sick or paid time-away policy of very local and state jurisdiction in the United States. For an overview of our benefits, visit

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