Java Developer - Software Engineer III

Bank of America•Newark, NJ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns. The Fraud & Claims Technology team is seeking an experienced, hands-on Java Developer to design, develop, and support scalable enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java development, microservices architecture, cloud technologies, and modern DevOps practices, along with the ability to lead technical solutions and mentor team members.

Requirements

5+ years of Java development experience, Java 17+ preferred, with experience in Java 8/11/17+ environments
Recent hands-on Java/Spring Boot experience and be capable of contributing directly to complex development and troubleshooting activities
Spring Boot and Spring Framework; REST APIs and Microservices Architecture
SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL
Kafka, MQ, or other messaging platforms
Maven or Gradle and Git-based development
JUnit 5, Mockito, and automated unit/integration testing practices
Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
Container platforms such as OpenShift and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Secure coding, code quality/static analysis, and vulnerability remediation experience
Strong problem-solving, debugging, performance troubleshooting, and production support experience
Agile/Scrum experience
GitHub Copilot adoption with the ability to use AI-assisted development while maintaining coding, testing, security, and engineering standards

Nice To Haves

OAuth2, JWT, SSO, Spring Security, and application security
Monitoring/observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics
SonarQube or similar code-quality tools

Responsibilities

Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
Automates manual release activities
Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)
Build and support scalable, high-performance microservices and APIs
Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews
Design, develop, test, and deploy enterprise-grade Java applications