Senior Software Engineer

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.

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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 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.

Job Profile Summary:

A Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead is required to modernize and expand our front office eTrading platforms that support Rates products across multiple lines of businesses globally. This is a hands-on technical leadership role that will bring expertise in software engineering best practices, architecting and building low latency D2C and D2D algos, market data connectivity, execution workflows, internalization, and pricing.  This role will help lead the technical architecture and delivery of strategic initiatives that span across business enablement/growth, platform modernization, stability, performance, and innovation.  The candidate will have deep experience in front-office eTrading systems and be a key partner to tech management, software engineers, quantitative analysts, and traders.

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
• Build high-performance, low latency components for fixed income eTrading and pricing workflows.
• Developing frameworks and core services to enable real-time order execution, auto-quoting, algo engines, pricing services, collaborating with quant and algo teams.
• Champion best development practices including agile iterative development, pairing, code reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, loosely coupled interface design, disciplines and principles for scalability and re-use.
• Refactor and modernize existing code and improving performance, design, and observability metrics of existing and new components
• Working with technology partners and business groups in the region and globally
• Work with the management, horizontal teams, and stakeholders to help define and deliver the strategic roadmap.
• Work with engineers, production support staff, and traders

Required Qualifications
• Clear articulate communication skills - Ability to communicate ideas, design, and architecture principles. Thrives in a collaborative environment and is able to break problems down analytically to work through solutions.
• Hands on Java development and technical leadership experience is a must-have with demonstrated ability to design and implement the architecture, development, and deployment.
• Engineering, Science, Math, or similar degree or equivalent professional exp
• Experience as a lead software engineer building electronic trading solutions
• Ability to work in a team-oriented setting
• Organized and able to prioritize effectively across workstreams
• Highly experienced in leveraging platforms for development including Linux, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Maven, Git/Bitbucket, Artifactory, automation scripting
• High proficiency in data architecture, schemas, and data workflows
• Strong experience in software engineering real-time trading system design principles
              - message-driven, event based architecture, TCP, UDP, Multicast
              - low latency performance and scaling
             - multithreading
              - service oriented interface driven architecture
              - object oriented design

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working in Fixed Income eTrading technology domain specializing in the D2C & D2D electronic execution, algo, pricing systems is a strong plus
• Experience integrating with APIs and workflows from venues such as CME, Bloomberg, Tradeweb
• Experience with FIX, FpML protocols

• Working knowledge of leveraging AI assisted software development tools (e.g. Claude, GPT, Co-Pilot) and able to incorporate context, skills, and structured prompting to help debug and enhance code
• Experience in algo system design and controls, including kill switches, limits, simulating scenarios, and metrics reporting
• Knowledge of fixed income products such as government bonds, interest rate swaps, futures is a strong plus but not required if you've worked on other traded products/systems like Equities or FX
• Experience with real-time pricing systems and analytic library integration used to compute bond or swap prices, yields, dv01, and other market relevant analytics

• Experience in trading system re-design migration projects is a big plus

Skills:

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management

Minimum Education Requirements - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)Pay and benefits informationPay range$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.BenefitsThis role is currently benefits eligible. We provide 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.