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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. 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, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

LOB Specific Summary

As part of an Agile team, the candidate will work with users to refine requirements, design and develop high-quality and scalable systems, and assist users during the QA/UAT process. This is a hands-on, technical position with the expectation that a majority of the candidate’s time will be spent on active development tasks.

The job is a development role in the Securities Settlement area where we are in the process of rewriting the process of many regional settlement platforms into a singular global platform

Responsibilities:

Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirementsDesigns, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintainedMentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stackExecutes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecyclePerforms spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideasAutomates manual release activitiesDesigns, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience developing solutions with core Java

• 2+ years professional experience developing solutions with Scala or other functional language

• Experience writing Unit Tests and Acceptance/Behavior Tests

• Ability to deliver quality code on timely basis

• Strong data structure, algorithm and problem solving skills

• Experience and desire to work in an Agile environment (pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc.)

• Demonstrable knowledge of problem domain at previous employments

• Experience working on a team, sharing code base with continuous integration

• Willing to participate in production support

• Experience working in Linux/Unix environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Message-oriented-middleware (Kafka, AMQP, MQ, AMPS, etc.) experience

• Distributed systems experience

• Web Application development (JavaScript, AngularJS, Bootstrap, etc.)

• REST API design and development

• DDD/CQRS/Event sourced systems experience

• Relevant industry (banking middle/back office) experience

• Experience in scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc)

• Experience with automated deployment technologies (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker, etc.)

• Experience with 3rd party Scala libraries and frameworks (Scalactic, Scalatra, Akka, RxScala, TypeLevel libraries, etc.)

• Understanding of Category Theory

Skills:

Application DevelopmentAutomationInfluenceSolution DesignTechnical Strategy DevelopmentArchitectureBusiness AcumenDevOps PracticesResult OrientationSolution Delivery ProcessAnalytical ThinkingCollaborationData ManagementRisk ManagementTest Engineering

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience developing solutions with core Java

• 2+ years professional experience developing solutions with Scala or other functional language

• Experience writing Unit Tests and Acceptance/Behavior Tests

• Ability to deliver quality code on timely basis

• Strong data structure, algorithm and problem solving skills

• Experience and desire to work in an Agile environment (pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc.)

• Demonstrable knowledge of problem domain at previous employments

• Experience working on a team, sharing code base with continuous integration

• Willing to participate in production support

• Experience working in Linux/Unix environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Message-oriented-middleware (Kafka, AMQP, MQ, AMPS, etc.) experience

• Distributed systems experience

• Web Application development (JavaScript, AngularJS, Bootstrap, etc.)

• REST API design and development

• DDD/CQRS/Event sourced systems experience

• Relevant industry (banking middle/back office) experience

• Experience in scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc)

• Experience with automated deployment technologies (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker, etc.)

• Experience with 3rd party Scala libraries and frameworks (Scalactic, Scalatra, Akka, RxScala, TypeLevel libraries, etc.)

• Understanding of Category Theory

Skills:

Application DevelopmentAutomationCollaborationDevOps PracticesSolution DesignAgile PracticesArchitectureResult OrientationSolution Delivery ProcessUser Experience DesignAnalytical ThinkingData ManagementRisk ManagementTechnical Strategy DevelopmentTest Engineering

Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Work 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 information

Pay range

$100,700.00 - $180,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This 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.

Benefits

This 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.