Software Engineer II

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. 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, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Position Overview:

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 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 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

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Developer/Engineer who participates in the design, development and implementation of complex applications, often using new technologies
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• 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
• Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource; provides tech knowledge and capabilities as team member and individual contributor. Will lead a small team
• 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
• 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

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 2+ 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.
• 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.
• 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)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture, API-first design, service orchestration, and distributed systems.
• Solid experience in Logging, Caching (REDIS), Transaction Management, Multi-Threading/Concurrency, Performance Tuning, and Monitoring aspects of applications
• 2+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)Pay and benefits informationPay range$88,800.00 - $144,800.00 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.