Senior Engineer - Equities Cash Technology Liquidity Engines

Bank of America•Jersey City, NJ

3d•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 our best to drive Responsible Growth and deliver 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 impacting 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 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)