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.

The Platform Engineering team will be building a streaming Platform for Consumer, Small Business, Wealth Management and Fraud use cases and partners. Candidate must possess a passion for producing high quality software and solutions, be ready to jump in and solve complex problems, and interact with users to understand the requirements and deliver solutions as a design-build-run engineer.

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

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience

• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Streaming Data platform, Pyspark, Python and Hadoop ecosystem

• Strong understanding of OOP fundamentals in either Java or Python

• Experience managing and leading Agile development teams in an Agile environment

• Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation

• Collaborate with product teams, data analysts and data scientists to design and build data-forward solutions

• Provide the prescriptive point-solution architectures and guide the descriptive architectures within assigned modules. Accountable for the availability, stability, scalability, security, and recoverability enabled by the designs

• Own technical decisions for the solution and application developers in the creation of architectural decisions and artifacts. Ability to clearly communicate with team & stakeholders

• Experience working on Agile teams

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Extensive hands on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions in Big Data and Streaming Platforms using Hadoop and Spark.

• Knowledge of processing and deployment technologies such YARN, Linux and Containers

• Experience programming and building full stack solutions utilizing distributed computing

• Hands on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining nRT software frameworks using Tiger Graph, Spark, Hadoop MR, Kafka, Java/Scala/Python etc.

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

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40