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I bet you could have gotten far with a reply to the effect of “a job.”

Much of the time this stuff is outsourced to a 3rd party. Even many "big" banks don't really want anything to do with developing their own software.

I'm sure the ONLY capacity they could think to use this guy would have been to actively develop their web software. /s

Whatever you ask for may be (mis-)interpreted as extortion. There's very thin ice in that direction.