Software Engineer III

Bank of America • Jersey City, NJ

1d • Hybrid

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. 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. Our team supports the Systematic Risk Trading area in Global Markets. The team provides creative solutions for facilitation of client flow, automated portfolio management, and broad-based quantitative analytics. We are a global team with a solid presence in AMRS, EMEA, and APAC. We aim to maintain a global perspective while recognizing and responding to specific regional requirements that differentiate each market. We are a diverse team of experienced developers, product owners, and QA authorities working closely with the line of business. Our team supports an existing product set while investing in a next-generation platform. The role is to work as a senior Python Software Engineer within the Systematic Risk Trading technology team and assist in the front to back design, development, testing, and production support of associated projects and initiatives. The role will require working closely with the business users, BA/PM/QA, other development and support teams to assist in the delivery of enhancements.

Requirements

• 7+ years working on Enterprise scale applications developed primarily using Python in a Linux environment and with broad exposure to well-known Python libraries
• Enthusiastic, passionate engineer able to work closely with project teams in a multi-faceted role
• Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift-left testing
• Practical experience within an Electronic Trading environment in an investment bank or similar
• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Nice To Haves

• Experience with quantitative trading, including analytics in Python or q/kdb+
• Experience with C++ and/or Java development
• Knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments
• Practical, hands-on experience with Agile and test-driven development

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)

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits
• Access to paid time off
• Resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve
• Bank of America is committed to help employees through the transition period when they’re displaced as a result of a workforce reduction, realignment or similar measure

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees