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Are you ready to take the next step? Discover a career in banking at Fifth Third Bank.\n**Position not eligible for immigration sponsorship**\nGENERAL FUNCTION:\nDesign and implement technology solutions using modern engineering tools and Agile practices. Work with self-directed, cross-functional, and product-oriented teams in a highly collaborative environment. Deliver some of the bank's most important products and services while developing skills and experience well beyond your initial role.\nAll employees are responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues, and ensuring that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. Operating within the Bank's risk appetite, you will achieve results while consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.\nDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nDevelop and maintain Newline's core RESTful API using Ruby on Rails \nWork with SRE's to design and implement our backend infrastructure using Terraform \nWork with the QA team to write thorough unit and integration tests \nParticipate in software architecture discussions and code reviews \nIntegrate our platform with bank core services and APIs \nAssist in establishing data security and information security best practices\nParticipate in API platform scaling and optimization sessions\nDevelop Newline's internal data pipeline and BI tools\nImplement and maintain new features and capabilities while continuously improving the quality of our technical products and services\nBuild and share technical expertise with your Agile team and other members of the organization\nFollow industry and organizational best practices and standards, and participate in company communities of practice to continuously refine and communicate them. 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Our Total Rewards include comprehensive benefits and differentiated compensation offerings to give each employee the opportunity to be their best every day.\nThe base salary for this position is reflective of the range of salary levels for all roles within this pay grade across the U.S. Individual salaries within this range will vary based on factors such as role, relevant skillset, relevant experience, education and geographic location. In addition to the base salary, this role is eligible to participate in an incentive compensation plan, with any such payment based upon company, line of business and/or individual performance.\nOur extensive benefits programs are designed to support the individual needs of our employees and their families, encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social well-being. You can learn more about those programs on our 53.com Careers page at: https://www.53.com/content/fifth-third/en/careers/benefits.html or by consulting with your talent acquisition partner.\nLOCATION -- Virtual, New Jersey 00000Attention search firms and staffing agencies: do not submit unsolicited resumes for this posting. Fifth Third does not accept resumes from any agency that does not have an active agreement with Fifth Third. 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