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.Provide leadership and deep technical expertise in all aspects of solution design and application development for specific business environments. Focus on setting technical direction on groups of applications and similar technologies as well as taking responsibility for technically robust solutions encompassing all business, architecture, and technology constraints. Possesses strong technical skills; provides tech knowledge and capabilities and coaches team members. Will not have direct reports but will direct activities of a team for execution of projects. May be responsible for coordinating teams to accomplish development in a matrixed organization.Responsibilities:Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirementsUtilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirementsPerforms Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activitiesContributes to story refinement and definition of requirementsParticipates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycleContributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying causePerforms spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideasRequired Qualifications:5+ years of relevant work experience with hands-on software development experience.Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the roleExperience working on high volume applications· Experience in server side frameworks like Spring MVCExperienced with the Spring Framework, including Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Integration, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPAGood understanding of SOAP web services and related standards like REST/JSONExperience building restful web servicesWorking knowledge for front end technologies like handlebars, foundation, and reactJS XML and JSON binding libraries (jaxb, Jackson, gson, etc)Unit Tests – JunitExperience with GIT, Maven, Nexus, Eclipse (or equivalent IDE)Experience with GIT distributed version control, branching/merge strategies, and BitbucketExperience with monitoring toolsets like Splunk, Dynatrace Familiarity with MQ (Websphere MQ or ActiveMQ) Experience in performance tuning with good understanding JVM internalsExperience with groovyExperience in Object-oriented programming and conceptsExperienced in Distributed System development using Java/J2EE/Web TechnologiesConversant in Java design patternsDesired Qualifications:Exposure to Agile MethodologiesAbility to communicate complex technology solutions to diverse teams namely, technical, business and managementGood interpersonal communication skills for tech and business conversations – ability to work in a collaborative/team environmentGood analytical skills to break down requirements, solve complex problemsProvide feedback in code reviews for improvementsBring improvement ideas to the team and be capable of driving the execution/implementationSkills:Application DevelopmentAutomationCollaborationDevOps PracticesSolution DesignAgile PracticesArchitectureResult OrientationSolution Delivery ProcessUser Experience DesignAnalytical ThinkingData ManagementRisk ManagementTechnical Strategy DevelopmentTest EngineeringMinimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.Shift:1st shift (United States of America)Hours Per Week: 40SummaryLocation: NewarkType: Full time