[Remote] Senior React Engineer (Remote)

March 6, 2026

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. First Citizens Bank is looking for a Senior React Engineer to help design and build pages of their Online Banking application. The ideal candidate will provide technical guidance, oversee development, and ensure effective communication with stakeholders while delivering high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities

Join a pod of developers and automation engineers supported by a product manager and scrum master, and collaborate with other Online Banking pods
Collaborate with Product and business owners to understand the business domain & products sufficiently to suggest best design / implementation to meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability
Spend most of your time on the design of systems, while maintaining a substantial percentage of time dedicated to hands-on implementation activities
Gain a solid hands-on knowledge of our client-facing web application, our microservices, our data architecture and databases, and our internal supporting systems and how they integrate with each other
Become a subject matter expert in one or more technical environments and deliver frameworks or standards to help other engineers follow best practices
Estimate (t-shirt) large features and releases as needed
Break down large feature sets in a way that other team members can understand, lead them to a successful implementation/release, and train them to do this themselves
Drive technical designs to consensus and approval by Architecture Review Team
Design and develop enterprise solutions for specific business need that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements
Perform impact analysis of proposed changes on existing architecture, capabilities, system priorities, and technology solutions
Look for additional solution options or trade-offs, and identify cost/benefit implications of proposed solutions. (e.g. people, processes, technology, strategy, finance)
Conduct group training sessions or lunch and learns
Come up with ideas for refreshing old processes and work with product manager or team lead to get these approved and document all updates to processes
Identify opportunities for refactoring and other tech debt remediation efforts throughout the code base that can be included in normal delivery activities
Leverage your extensive experience in previous projects to guard code quality and take opportunities to mentor junior engineers
Lend a hand in architecture and design discussions for other engineers, considering knowledge of the existing code base
Help mentor other team members in large scale feature planning
Express what you know comfortably and confidently, especially during code reviews
Drive to learn new things and go above and beyond the call of duty
Always work to improve yourself and constructively support the team around you
Accept feedback with eagerness to learn more. We value continued learning and development, so you will learn a lot

Skills

Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
8+ years of Front End/UI focused Software Engineer experience
Solid experience with React 16+, Redux, Mobx Store Management, Node.js, Typescript, ES6, CSS3, CSS Preprocessors, Grid Layout Knowledge, Jest Test
Very well versed and practical experience with Agile/Iterative delivery methodologies
Deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code – Abstracting and refactoring should be a passion, not a chore
Ability to influence the architecture and design
Ability to analyze and trouble shoot production issues
Experience with TDD and CICD delivery
Experience with distributed systems and with Micro-services architecture
Hands-on experience with RESTful web services, web applications, transactional databases
Experience with enterprise integration services/solutions
Experience and exposure to API gateways
Experience with Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Docker and Jenkins
Bonus points for experience with regulated financial organizations

Company Overview

First Citizens Bank provides banking services, essential business and professional services, wealth management capabilities, and more. It was founded in 1898, and is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.firstcitizens.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

First Citizens Bank has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 126 in 2025, 115 in 2024, 249 in 2023, 53 in 2022, 12 in 2021, 9 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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