Lead Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 23, 2026. M&T Bank Corporation scores B on the Alion truth index.
Title: Lead Software Engineer
Job Location: 465 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203. Position requires in-office work four (4) days every week.
Job Description: Develop and coach other team members while also working independently on the applications within the boundaries of approved Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, including identification and recommendation of metrics to solve business needs and minimize risks to the Bank through clean and resilient code. Review and approve the designs and proposals of pull requests and oversee the execution on the change management of the request. Design process for peer review and coach others on code reviews, code quality, and improvements. Author organized, clean, efficient, and secure source code at the expert level in a minimum of one programming language and moderate proficiency in a minimum of one other language while coaching team members on the appropriate data structure and algorithms to solve business problems. Oversee the source control management inclusions of other team members and perform the merging of code developments into the production deployment path. Review testing methodology and code coverage of team members to ensure comprehensive testing is accomplished and coach others on areas of opportunity. Drive implementation adherence with patterns and practices for performance testing, resiliency, and optimization within their domain. Review and approve requirement plans on behalf of the team in alignment with delivery partners and ensure requirement completeness, accuracy, and feasibility. Serve as key partner with other groups; suggest continuous process improvement spanning organizational boundaries where, in their own judgement, technical or architectural concerns require it. Contribute technical requirements where appropriate in support of delivery and maintenance solutions within their domain. Understand and effectively communicates architecture, progress, and challenges to business or technical stakeholders and teams. Contribute ideas and recommendations to the team's application architectural design work, engineering practices and pattern changes, and present at architecture peer group and architecture review board meetings within their domain. Present team's work at internal meetings with other peers and author internal blog posts. Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management. Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the M&T Bank brand. Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
Minimum requirements: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field plus five (5) years of experience in the job offered or as Software Engineer, Software Developer, or a related occupation.
Position requires five (5) years of experience in each of the following:
- Kofax Total Agility (KTA) or Tungsten Total Agility;
- C#;
- .NET;
- Visual Studio;
- SQL Server;
- Object Orientated Programing Concepts (OOPS);
- Kofax Insight or Tungsten Insight Studio;
- JQuery; and
- Python.
Salary: $160,713.00 - $170,713.00 per year