Software Engineer Senior

Texas Capital is built to help businesses and their leaders. Our depth of knowledge and expertise allows us to bring the best of the big firms at a scale that works for our clients, with highly experienced bankers who truly invest in people’s success — today and tomorrow.

While we are rooted in core financial products, we are differentiated by our approach. Our bankers are seasoned financial experts who possess deep experience across a multitude of industries. Equally important, they bring commitment — investing the time and resources to understand our clients’ immediate needs, identify market opportunities and meet long-term objectives. At Texas Capital, we do more than build business success. We build long-lasting relationships.

Texas Capital provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, fertility and family building aids, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans with a generous 401K match, paid leave programs, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).

Headquartered in Dallas with offices in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, Richardson, Plano and San Antonio, Texas Capital was recently named Best Regional Bank in 2024 by Bankrate and was named to The Dallas Morning News’ Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex Top Workplaces 2023 and GoBankingRate’s 2023 list of Best Regional Banks. For more information about joining our team, please visit us at www.texascapitalbank.com.

Texas Capital Bank is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep UI expertise and full-stack capability to join the software engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of high-quality, customer-facing user interfaces while also contributing to backend services. You will work alongside a distributed team of engineers to deliver features that directly impact the customer banking experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of highly interactive, responsive, and accessible user interfaces for customer-facing banking applications

• Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support UI functionality, using Java or equivalent backend technologies

• Translate business requirements and UX designs into clean, efficient, and scalable front-end and back-end code

• Perform new feature exploration to determine feature-fit for strategic and tactical program priorities

• Work on new feature development, defect fixes, and perform code and design reviews to maintain quality standards

• Address planned and unplanned production issues including coordination, maintenance, communication, and business support

• Document and implement change control best practices with respect to system maintenance, configuration, development, testing, and data integrity

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to design, review, and deliver new features

• Monitor application performance and proactively identify and resolve issues

• Partner with QA engineers to ensure quality through testing processes and protocols prior to release

• Identify areas for process, performance, and efficiency improvement within the UI layer and broader application

• Continuously improve software engineering practices and implement automation for manual processes

• Partner with the team to run Agile ceremonies and align to Agile cadences

• Lead the craftsmanship, availability, resilience, scalability, and security of your UI solutions

• Stay current on UI/UX trends, emerging frameworks, and front-end security best practices

• Encourage innovation, outside-of-the-box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity within the engineering community

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in software engineering with a primary focus on UI/front-end development

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Technology, or related field

• Expert-level knowledge of one or more modern front-end frameworks: React (preferred), Angular, Vue, or Next.js

• Proficiency in TypeScript and JavaScript, including component architecture, state management, and performance optimization

• Experience designing and implementing highly interactive, accessible user interfaces for high-volume web applications

• Knowledge of one or more backend programming languages (Java preferred, .NET, Python, Go, or Ruby)

• Experience with web service development using REST, gRPC, or SOAP

• Experience with CSS frameworks and design systems including component libraries and responsive design patterns

• Knowledge of web application security best practices including OWASP top 10, XSS prevention, and secure authentication patterns

• Knowledge of debugging, testing, and QA processes including unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing frameworks

• Knowledge of Agile development methodologies and tools such as Azure DevOps, Git, or similar

• Ability to write clean, well-designed, and efficient code and participate in code and design reviews

• Ability to test products with cross-functional teams prior to release and deployment - Analytical mindset with strong critical thinking, research, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

• Proficiency in organization and time management with a proven track record of meeting deadlines

• Proficiency in written and verbal communication skills including technical documentation

Preferred:

• Experience with micro-frontend architecture patterns

• Familiarity with Texas Capital or financial services domain applications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps pipelines

• Experience with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) for financial applications

• Experience working in a distributed onshore/offshore team environment

• Familiarity with Camunda BPMN or workflow orchestration platforms

• Experience with Azure cloud services and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Subject Matter Expertise in three or more platforms in appropriate technology domain

• Proficiency in broader MS Office suite including Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Power BI

The duties listed above are the essential functions, or fundamental duties within the job classification.  The essential functions of individual positions within the classification may differ. Texas Capital Bank may assign reasonably related additional duties to individual employees consistent with standard departmental policy.Texas Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer.