This role sits on a high‑visibility, agile engineering team building a next‑generation digital banking platform from the ground up. You’ll join a tight‑knit team of 5–7 engineers operating in a true product model—partnering closely with a product owner, scrum master, QA, and business systems analysts—where engineers have real ownership over design, delivery, and technical direction.
As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll work hands‑on across mobile and full‑stack technologies while helping move digital banking customers onto a modern cloud platform. This is not a maintenance role. It’s an opportunity to influence architecture, shape engineering practices, and build new capabilities end‑to‑end on a program with strong leadership visibility and long‑term strategic impact.
At the expert level, you are responsible for writing high‑quality code while guiding the team’s technical approach—from requirements through deployment—ensuring solutions are resilient, secure, and aligned with banking technology standards across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Primary Responsibilities
Technical Environment & Experience Highlights
Successful candidates will bring strong hands‑on experience and curiosity across modern technologies, including:
Education and Experience Required
Education and Experience Preferred
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M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $116,400.00 - $194,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Great companies have an enduring sense of purpose. At M&T, our purpose is a simple one: make a difference in people’s lives and uplift the communities we serve. Founded in 1856 in Buffalo, NY we are now a top 11 full-service US-based commercial bank with a retail footprint across the east coast and wealth services available nationwide and abroad. As a bank, we offer advice, guidance, expertise, and solutions across the entire financial spectrum that combines M&T’s traditional banking services with the wealth management and institutional capabilities offered by Wilmington Trust. We are a community-minded organization with more than 167 years of experience. We serve customers, community, and colleagues whether they be across the street, across the state or across the country.
As an employer of choice, we are proud to offer competitive benefits ranging from medical and retirement to forty hours of paid volunteer time, each year. Our core values drive the work we do – integrity, ownership, collaboration, curiosity, candor and we seek to further build upon our record of success by bringing in top talent and fresh skill sets while continuing to support the growth and development of all our team members.
M&T Bank is unwavering when it comes to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, age, disability, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, military status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local laws.
