Software Engineer III
About The Position
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. Position Summary: Help build the future of Payment Observability at Bank of America. Join a team pioneering a next-generation platform that delivers real-time visibility, intelligence, and operational insights across billions of dollars of payment transactions, enabling faster issue detection, improved resiliency, and a superior client experience. We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to architect and build a cloud-native, microservices-based observability platform that combines modern web experiences, event-driven processing, advanced search, analytics, and operational intelligence to transform how payments are monitored, analyzed, and managed across the enterprise. The ideal candidate is a hands-on senior engineer who thrives at the intersection of application development, distributed systems, and payments technology, with a proven track record building scalable, cloud-native platforms using modern web, microservices, streaming, and data technologies. They are equally comfortable designing intuitive user experiences and engineering resilient backend services, bringing strong expertise in Angular/React, Java/Spring Boot, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes, and NoSQL technologies to deliver highly available, mission-critical solutions in a fast-paced, enterprise environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in a combination of full-stack enterprise application architecture, software development, and infrastructure
- Strong hands-on experience building modern web applications using Angular and/or ReactJS.
- Extensive experience developing Java-based enterprise applications using Spring Boot, Spring Framework, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, API-first design, service orchestration, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, and containerized application development.
- Strong experience with Oracle databases, advanced SQL, data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
- Experience with NoSQL technologies including MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and document-oriented application design.
- Solid experience in Logging, Caching (REDIS), Transaction Management, Multi-Threading/Concurrency, Performance Tuning, and Monitoring aspects of applications
- Observability tooling (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, DNT) and incident response experience
- Ability to work closely with Solutions Architects to design componentized solutions that align with an API-based integration strategy
- Ability to develop, review and comment on written technical documentation
- Understanding and usage of DevOps processes for the build and deployment
- Strong knowledge of Enterprise Dev/Ops tools including Bitbucket, Ansible Tower, Jenkins and GitHub (Atlasian Suite/Horizon)
- 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams (Preferably Scaled Agile)
Nice To Haves
- 12+ years of relevant work experience in developing enterprise web applications
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
- Exposure to financial services and payment lifecycles (initiation → processing → settlement → proof of completion)
- Experience with MongoDB schema design, aggregation pipelines, indexing strategies, and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with cloud modernization (Azure preferred), including Databricks (Spark/Delta), Snowflake, Kafka/Event Hubs.
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)
- Development/tech lead who participates in the design, development and implementation of complex applications, often using new technologies
- Provide technical direction and system architecture for individual initiatives. Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource
- Will not have direct reports but may lead projects and direct activities of a team related to special initiatives or operations
- Routine accountability is for technical knowledge and capabilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders such as architects, developers, data analysts and data modelers to understand dependencies, review designs and align roadmaps
- Summarize and interpret large amounts of data and gain insights that help discover new patterns and trends and do analytical reporting and find new business insights
- Contributes to the determination of technical and operational feasibility of solutions
- Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource; provides tech knowledge and capabilities as team member and individual contributor. Will lead a small team
- May collaborate with external programmers and offshore teams to coordinate delivery commitments & also works closely with Support teams, offshore teams, Platform teams and Business Partners
- Regularly communicate work progress with management, identifying issues early and resolving them quickly to avoid or minimize impact to projects
- Gather, refine and validate complex business requirements, interdependencies and potential risks or issues
- Application Ownership & Reliability: Monitor health, triage incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and drive permanent fixes
- Feature Leadership (IC): Provide technical direction, work breakdown, and delivery oversight; ensure solutions meet acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt
- Security & Compliance: Lead vulnerability remediation (SCA/SAST, CVE triage, patching), secure configuration, and audit readiness
- Infrastructure & Environments: Manage non prod/prod configurations, CI/CD pipelines, capacity/performance tuning, and change controls
- Architecture & Standards: Align design to enterprise patterns (APIs, microservices, containers) and enforce coding/quality principles
- Data & Integrations: Validate API contracts, data accuracy, and search/index behavior; ensure consistency across services
- Observability: Maintain logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerts; conduct post incident reviews and reliability improvements
- Collaboration & Mentorship: Partner with Product/Architecture/SRE; guide engineering practices (estimation, reviews, testing) and contribute to documentation/runbooks
Benefits
- access to paid time off
- resources and support to our employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
