Software Engineer III - Equities Structured Products Technology
About The Position
At Bank of America, this role develops and delivers complex requirements that accomplish business goals, ensuring software meets functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements and is designed for maintainability, integration, and testing. The successful candidate leads technical direction and engineering delivery for the Secondary Markets space, including secondary market making, trade execution, external vendor connectivity, and modernization of the current platform as part of the strategic Structured Notes buildout. The role defines architecture and development standards while remaining an active hands-on contributor. It partners with trading, platform, operations, front-office technology, and adjacent workstreams to deliver an integrated front-to-back platform aligned with the Structured Notes strategic architecture. The position combines technical depth with strategic thinking and leadership. It owns technology supporting secondary market activity for Structured Notes within Equity Derivatives and drives a multi-year technology roadmap for a major business growth initiative.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, or a related field; equivalent professional experience is accepted under the minimum education requirement.
- At least 8 years of experience in technology roles supporting capital markets, derivatives, or structured products.
- Hands-on experience with modern front-office systems, such as Java, Python, C#, distributed systems, or real-time platforms.
- Understanding of equity derivatives concepts, including pricing, Greeks, lifecycle events, and secondary market dynamics.
- Experience working closely with traders, quants, or structurers in a demanding delivery environment.
- Ability to take ownership of complex systems and deliver outcomes in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Strong execution discipline, intellectual curiosity, and desire for professional growth.
- Ability to operate effectively within a large global organization while driving meaningful change.
- Strong knowledge of software development and testing practices, and design and architectural patterns.
- Proficiency in programming languages required for the role.
- First shift schedule; 40 hours per week.
Nice To Haves
- An advanced degree.
- Two or more years of relevant work experience, as stated in the desired qualifications.
- Passion for building and owning front-office technology that directly enables business outcomes.
- Strong interest in Structured Notes, Equity Derivatives, and complex financial products, and a desire to deepen domain expertise.
- Ability to thrive in high-visibility roles with senior stakeholder engagement.
- Entrepreneurial mindset in an enterprise environment, including comfort driving change, challenging the status quo, and shaping strategy.
- Leadership capabilities, including inspiring teams, setting technical direction, and mentoring talent.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to bridge technology and business audiences.
- Motivation to grow into broader technology leadership roles.
Responsibilities
- Code solutions and unit test them to meet story acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
- Design, develop, and modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while maintaining principal architecture integrity.
- Mentor software engineers and coach the team on CI/CD practices and automation tooling.
- Refine stories, define requirements, and estimate work across the delivery lifecycle.
- Perform spikes and proofs of concept to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
- Automate manual release activities.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated integration, regression, and performance test suites.
- Own the technology stack supporting secondary market activity for Structured Notes within Equity Derivatives.
- Drive delivery of a multi-year technology roadmap aligned with a major business growth initiative.
- Partner with Trading and Structuring to deliver scalable, performant solutions for real-time front-office needs.
- Lead system stability, production excellence, and resiliency for mission-critical platforms.
- Engage with trading, platform, and operations stakeholders and partner with front-office technology and adjacent workstreams to deliver an integrated platform.
Benefits
- Industry-leading benefits; this role is currently benefits eligible.
- Access to paid time off.
- Eligible to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan; award eligibility is based on individual performance and behaviors, line-of-business or group performance and contributions, and overall company success.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
