Software Engineer II - Java/J2EE

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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 Summary:

This is a Full stack Software Development Engineer role in Bank of America Erica, Chat and Voice Technology team.. The Team builds next generation AI and Search platforms for the bank enabling banking assistants and search across multiple platforms. This position requires candidate to be well versed with client side and server side technologies. Candidate must possess passion for producing high quality software, ready to jump in and solve complex problems and perform code reviews.  Candidate is expected to write unit and integration test and should be familiar to perform hybrid engineering tasks within the agile team.

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 hands on software development experience using Java / J2EE technologies
• Good interpersonal communication skills for tech and business conversations
• Good analytical skills to break down requirements, solve complex problems 

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on high volume applications
• Experience in server side frameworks like Spring MVC
• Experience building restful web services
• Experience in performance tuning with good understanding of JVM internals
• Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra
• Experience in distributed caching frameworks like hazelcast, ignite, redis
• Experience in modern JVM languages like groovy, scala
• Experience with open source search engines like SOLR, elasticsearch
• Experience working with NLP and Machine learning
• Prior open source contributions
• Proven task management and leadership skills
• Experience working in agile teams

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

Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40