Truist · 14 hours ago
Lead Software Platform Engineer – Foundational Platform & Interoperability
Charlotte, NC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expTruist is a financial services company seeking a Lead Software Platform Engineer for Foundational Platform & Interoperability. This role is critical in designing and delivering enterprise abstractions and automation frameworks, focusing on building reusable platform services to enable teams to integrate and operate software with consistency and resilience.
BankingFinanceFinancial Services
No H1B
Responsibilities
Performs problem tracking, diagnosis and root-cause analysis, replication, troubleshooting, and resolution for highly complex issues
In this capacity, oversees others who perform programming and debugging activities
Responds to issues in a timely manner by receiving and investigating incidents or service tickets
Provides technical consultation on extremely challenging or unusual situations
May lead large, complex projects related to improving processes or support capabilities
May engage and manage external vendors
Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices
Uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions
Mentors less experienced teammates to build technical expertise
May have people management responsibilities
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree and eight years of experience in development or production support or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge
Sound understanding of business and organizational strategies and processes
Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices
Ability to lead complex projects
Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to solve complex technical and business problems
Ability to influence others at senior levels to adopt a new perspective
Preferred
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field, with 10+ years of experience building cloudnative platforms, automation frameworks, or distributed systems at enterprise scale
Strong hands-on programming experience in: Java (core platform services, integration frameworks), Python (automation, orchestration, agentic workflows), Node.js/TypeScript (API gateways, developer-facing services, UI integration)
Expertise in modern API design & interoperability standards, including: Designing and documenting RESTful and gRPC APIs using OpenAPI/Swagger and protobuf, Consistent versioning, backward compatibility, and contract governance, Authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth2.1/OIDC, JWT), policy enforcement (RBAC/ABAC), rate limiting, quotas, and zerotrust boundaries, Strong API hygiene: idempotency, request validation, pagination, content negotiation, and RFC 7807 error standards
Advanced data access and persistence experience, including: Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL systems (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB), Schema migration tooling (Flyway, Liquibase), Transaction modeling, indexing strategies, read/write separation, query optimization, Distributed caching patterns with Redis/Memcached (readthrough, writethrough/behind, cacheaside, TTL strategy, stampede prevention)
Deep expertise in messaging, streaming, and integration patterns, including: Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS, Azure Service Bus, Event-driven architecture, Sagas, Outbox patterns, Debezium CDC, Schema governance using Schema Registry / Avro, Semantic delivery guarantees (exactly-once, at-least-once)
Platform-grade resiliency & reliability engineering, including: Timeouts, retries (jittered backoff), circuit breakers, bulkheads, hedging, load shedding, Libraries and mesh capabilities: Resilience4j, Polly, Envoy, Multi-AZ/region patterns, graceful degradation, compensation workflows, Defining SLIs/SLOs, contributing to error budgets, performing chaos testing/fault injection
Cloud, runtime, and platform orchestration expertise, including: OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container-native service design, AWS event-driven and serverless patterns (Lambda, EventBridge, SNS/SQS), Multi-tenant platform architectures and service mesh–driven interoperability
Deep observability, telemetry, and operational analytics, including: Structured logging with correlation/trace IDs and PII-safe filtering, Full-stack instrumentation with OpenTelemetry (metrics, traces, logs), Metrics pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana and RED/USE methodology, Splunk and Dynatrace for distributed tracing, APM, log analytics, dashboards, alerting, and service health visualization, SLO-driven operational dashboards and runbooks
Comprehensive automated testing expertise, including: Unit, integration (Testcontainers), contract (Pact), functional/UI (Playwright/Cypress), Mutation testing (PIT, Stryker), Performance testing (k6, Gatling, Locust), Security scanning (SAST/DAST/dependency scanning), Smoke/canary testing and deterministic CI pipelines, Test data management (seeded data, anonymized snapshots)
Modern frontend engineering experience (preferred but not required), including: TypeScript and React (preferred), Angular, or Vue, State management (Redux, Zustand, NgRx, Pinia), OAuth2.1/OIDC/PKCE flows and secure client-side API consumption, Performance best practices: code splitting, lazy loading, Lighthouse budgets, WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, Component libraries (Storybook) and visual regression testing
Ability to operate as a platform engineer and interoperability architect, collaborating across platform, product, and security domains to define reusable abstractions, integration standards, and platform-led delivery patterns
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life insurance
Disability
Accidental death and dismemberment
Tax-preferred savings accounts
401k plan
Vacation
Sick days
Paid holidays
Defined benefit pension plan
Restricted stock units
Deferred compensation plan
Company
Truist
Truist is the sixth-largest commercial bank in the U.S.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2021-01-01Seed
Leadership Team
Michael Maguire
Chief Financial Officer
James Cordovana
SVP of Cloud Security Enterprise Architect
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