Staff Engineer II - AI Forward Full Stack Engineer

We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes "What You'll Do" (responsibilities), "What You'll Need" (requirements/qualifications/skills), "Benefits You’ll Love" (benefits). No explicit Pay or Schedule info. So we should not include Pay or Schedule sections. Also maybe "About The Company" is not required heading; we can ignore or maybe treat as About the role? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should map content accordingly. We have: - About the role: maybe a brief description? The posting includes "Job Title Staff Engineer II - AI Forward Full Stack Engineer Location: Block 23". The "About the role" could be a short paragraph summarizing role. We could include a paragraph from the first paragraph after "What You'll Do"? Actually "What You'll Do" is responsibilities. So "About the role" could be a short overview: maybe combine the first sentence: "As a Staff Engineer II, you will provide advanced technical expertise..." But that's also responsibilities. However we can still include an About the role section with a brief summary: maybe the first two sentences before bullet list? The posting: "As a Staff Engineer II, you will provide advanced technical expertise and hands‑on engineering support across Lending technology platforms, with a primary focus on solutions supporting the Lending Services Framework (LSF). You will work on moderately complex initiatives involving loan processing, servicing, integrations, and reporting, contributing to solution design and leading execution for assigned components. In this role, you will collaborate closely with business partners, architects, and senior engineers to deliver AI‑enabled full‑stack solutions that support Lending operations and modernization efforts. You are expected to demonstrate strong technical judgment, guide junior engineers, and apply established architectural, security, and governance standards while continuing to grow toward broader technical leadership." That could be About the role. Then Responsibilities could be the bullet list of duties: "Contribute to the design, development, and delivery of AI‑enabled, cloud‑native full‑stack solutions..." etc. We'll need to extract those bullet points. Requirements: maybe "7+ years of related experience..." etc. Qualifications: maybe Bachelor's degree required, etc. Skills: maybe technical skills list: Azure, .NET, Python, React, SQL, ETL, AI-assisted dev tools, CI/CD, etc. But we need to avoid duplication. We can combine. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details but can format as lists. We must not repeat job title as heading. Do not put Job ID etc. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should omit the EEO statement at end, the accommodation request, copyright. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's parse the posting: Job Title Staff Engineer II - AI Forward Full Stack Engineer Location: Block 23 What You'll Do [Paragraph about role] Contribute to the design, development, and delivery of AI‑enabled, cloud‑native full‑stack solutions supporting Lending platforms and the Lending Services Framework (LSF) under the guidance of senior and principal engineers. Apply AI‑forward engineering practices, including Prompt Engineering, MCP, and RAG‑based patterns, to improve automation, solution quality, and developer productivity within Lending solutions. Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable APIs using Azure API Management (APIM), following established standards for security, versioning, throttling, observability, and lifecycle management. Perform hands‑on full‑stack development using Azure, .NET, Python, React (Vite framework), SQL, and ETL technologies, delivering production‑ready solutions aligned to Lending business requirements. Leverage AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot and approved internal LLMs) to accelerate development while adhering to governance, security, and compliance standards. Implement and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Azure DevOps (ADO), and Azure Pipelines, ensuring reliable and repeatable deployments across Lending applications. Support observability, monitoring, and performance practices to ensure Lending systems meet operational reliability, audit, and regulatory expectations. Participate in solution and code reviews, providing feedback to ensure designs and implementations align with architectural standards and Lending volumetrics. Collaborate with business partners, architects, QA, and cross‑functional teams to translate Lending requirements into effective technical solutions. Develop and maintain technical documentation, including design artifacts, configurations, and operational procedures, in compliance with WAB IT standards. What You'll Need 7+ years of related experience in software engineering or IT development, with hands‑on experience delivering full‑stack applications in a Financial Services or Lending environment. Bachelor’s degree in a related field required. Previous technical leadership experience, such as leading features, components, or small workstreams, preferred. Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Financial Services or Banking, with experience supporting Lending platforms, loan servicing, integrations, or reporting strongly preferred. Demonstrated experience developing cloud‑native solutions on Azure, including APIs, data integrations, and CI/CD pipelines. Practical experience using AI‑assisted development techniques (e.g., Prompt Engineering, RAG patterns, or GenAI tools) within an enterprise development environment. Advanced knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, industry standards, and secure software development practices. Proven experience working with cross‑functional teams and managing multiple deliverables simultaneously within Agile or DevOps environments. Strong ability to align technical solutions with business objectives while adhering to intake, architectural review, and governance processes. Advanced speaking and writing communication skills. May require up to 25% travel. Benefits You’ll Love We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career! About The Company Western Alliance Bank, Member FDIC, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Serving clients nationwide, Western Alliance Bank includes six legacy bank brands — Alliance Association Bank, Alliance Bank of Arizona, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank and Torrey Pines Bank — that remain part of the company’s heritage, as well as AmeriHome Mortgage, a Western Alliance Bank Company. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process. © Western Alliance Bancorporation We need to remove EEO/legal boilerplate. So we should omit the equal employment paragraph and accommodation request and copyright. Also maybe the "About The Company" description could be kept? It's not a required heading but could be considered "About the role"? The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but we should prefer those. The "About The Company" is not one of those; we could either omit it or include as a paragraph under About the role? The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine company description into About the role? But About the role is about the role, not company. However we could still include a short paragraph about the company under About the role? Might be stretching. Better to omit the About The Company section entirely, as it's not required heading and we prefer few sections. The posting includes location; we could include location in a short paragraph maybe under About the role? Not required but we could include location as part of About the role? The instruction says do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. So location is minor metadata; we could fold into a short

maybe under About the role or at top. But we need to preserve ALL substantive information. Location is substantive? It's location. We should keep it. We can include a short

at start: "Location: Block 23". Not a heading. Thus final HTML:

Location: Block 23

About the role

As a Staff Engineer II, you will provide advanced technical expertise and hands‑on engineering support across Lending technology platforms, with a primary focus on solutions supporting the Lending Services Framework (LSF). You will work on moderately complex initiatives involving loan processing, servicing, integrations, and reporting, contributing to solution design and leading execution for assigned components. In this role, you will collaborate closely with business partners, architects, and senior engineers to deliver AI‑enabled full‑stack solutions that support Lending operations and modernization efforts. You are expected to demonstrate strong technical judgment, guide junior engineers, and apply established architectural, security, and governance standards while continuing to grow toward broader technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, development, and delivery of AI‑enabled, cloud‑native full‑stack solutions supporting Lending platforms and the Lending Services Framework (LSF) under the guidance of senior and principal engineers.
• Apply AI‑forward engineering practices, including Prompt Engineering, MCP, and RAG‑based patterns, to improve automation, solution quality, and developer productivity within Lending solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable APIs using Azure API Management (APIM), following established standards for security, versioning, throttling, observability, and lifecycle management.
• Perform hands‑on full‑stack development using Azure, .NET, Python, React (Vite framework), SQL, and ETL technologies, delivering production‑ready solutions aligned to Lending business requirements.
• Leverage AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot and approved internal LLMs) to accelerate development while adhering to governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Azure DevOps (ADO), and Azure Pipelines, ensuring reliable and repeatable deployments across Lending applications.
• Support observability, monitoring, and performance practices to ensure Lending systems meet operational reliability, audit, and regulatory expectations.
• Participate in solution and code reviews, providing feedback to ensure designs and implementations align with architectural standards and Lending volumetrics.
• Collaborate with business partners, architects, QA, and cross‑functional teams to translate Lending requirements into effective technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including design artifacts, configurations, and operational procedures, in compliance with WAB IT standards.

Requirements

• 7+ years of related experience in software engineering or IT development, with hands‑on experience delivering full‑stack applications in a Financial Services or Lending environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required