Software Engineer III

Software Engineer III

Jersey City, New Jersey

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Job Description:

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!

Job Description:

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.

LOB Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Developer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in Python and React to join our Global Markets Trade Horizontal technology team. This team provides common, standardized capabilities used across multiple Global Markets asset classes, enabling consistency, reuse, and efficiency across front-to-back trade workflows. The ideal candidate is a strong full-stack engineer with a solid understanding of modern engineering practices and the ability to build scalable, reliable components that support critical trading functions.

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)

Design, build, and enhance standardized Line of Business (LOB) wrappers that promote common patterns, reuse, and uniformity across Global Markets applications.

Contribute to ongoing enhancements and modernization efforts within the Quartz Financial Stack, supporting both functional and technical improvements.

Develop and maintain trade horizontal services, shared components, and tooling leveraged across multiple asset classes.

Build performant and intuitive front end interfaces using React.js.

Design and implement resilient and scalable back end services using Python.

Collaborate with trading, product, and technology partners to deliver high impact solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Participate in all phases of the SDLC, ensuring high code quality, observability, and operational resilience.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of hands-on experience in both Python and React with strong proficiency in building production systems.

Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including Object Oriented Methodology, microservices, REST, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization

Experience working with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and real-time or near real-time data pipelines.

Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to work effectively in a collaborative, agile environment.

Desired Qualifications:

Prior Quartz experience is a strong plus, including familiarity with Quartz components, LOB wrappers, and integration patterns.

Experience in Global Markets, trading systems, or other financial services domains.

Knowledge of trade lifecycle, risk, market data, or pricing systems.

Skills:

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Bank of America and its affiliates consider for employment and hire qualified candidates without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status, or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our teammates.