Senior Engineer - Equities Cash Technology Liquidity Engines

Bank of America • Jersey City, NJ

4d • Onsite

About The Position

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery. We are looking to hire a Senior Engineer to provide leadership in Liquidity and Matching Engines for Equities Cash Technology globally. Investment in these functional areas represents a strategic imperative to significantly upgrade our execution capabilities and build a world class platform to win new clients seeking performant solutions in a highly competitive environment. The ideal candidate has significant practical experience in Electronic Trading of Equities in Java and a passion for modern software architecture and development practices. You will take on a key role within our Equities Cash Trading Technology team, working with multiple partners across organizations including senior leadership. The role requires a strategic mindset, an ability to understand technology development, transformation and change management at scale, a strong customer service mindset in support of our growing equities trading franchise and an ability to leverage data to manage transparently, identify risks and drive consistent delivery. The ideal candidate will have a passion for improving both client and employee experience and a background in managing process/ product/ transformational change.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in both Java development on Linux
• Direct exposure to building Electronic Trading applications
• Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing
• In depth understanding of core Java API’s (collections, concurrency, NIO)
• Understand and have experience with multithreaded systems, working knowledge of the Java garbage collector, familiar with low latency I/O
• Ability to architect resilient, instrumented, distributed systems achieving world class reliability
• Familiarity with Agile software development and associated best practices
• Enthusiastic, strong-minded person able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role and help instill a responsible and professional culture
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical partners
• Understanding of and experience with design patterns (Observer, Factory, Singleton)
• Development practices - Should be able to employ AI-driven, test focused development

Nice To Haves

• Deep knowledge of financial asset classes (particularly Equities) and algorithmic trading of these products
• Exposure to Sequencer architectures in Financial Services
• Working knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments

Responsibilities

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Technical development in the Liquidity and Matching Engines projects, a set of high performant Java components creating improved execution capabilities for internal and external clients
• Employing a strong business-centric mindset, with ability to utilize sound business judgment and tailor approach to drive optimal business outcomes
• Liaising with the Equity LOB to drive a cohesive strategy supporting multiple workflows across lines of business
• Analyzing business requirements, forming architectural designs, overseeing cross-team development and testing, and managing production issues
• Collaborating closely with our Site Reliability Engineering group to achieve industry leading reliability and scalability
• Developing roadmaps for continuous platform improvement
• Delivery of core framework-level changes
• Interaction with quantitative trading group / quantitative traders to capture core requirements
• Being involved with all aspects of the development lifecycle (gathering requirements, developing code, writing unit tests, reviewing patches, performing 2nd level support)

Benefits

• Access to paid time off
• Resources and support to our employees
• Discretionary incentive eligible
• Annual discretionary award based on individual performance, line of business performance, and overall company success
• Industry-leading benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree