Software Engineer III at Bank of America in Pennington, NJ

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!

Position Summary: 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.

We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior Java Developer to join the Private Bank Trading Technology team. The Private Bank Trading space offers a unique opportunity to work on a mission-critical platform that supports key trading functions for the firm's Private Bank business. The platform is undergoing significant transformation, including a large-scale Charles River Cloud Migration and modernization journey, providing extensive opportunities to influence architecture, technology direction, and business outcomes.

This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can independently drive solution design, collaborate effectively with Information Security, Network Engineering, Infrastructure, and external vendor teams, and operate with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on high-impact initiatives that shape the future state of a business-critical trading platform while leveraging modern cloud-native technologies and engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)
• Support the cloud migration and modernization of a mission-critical PB Trading platform.
• Accelerate delivery of strategic transformation initiatives and business commitments.
• Ensure continued stability and performance of a platform that directly supports the firm's trading operations and client service capabilities.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, architects, and cross-functional partners across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software development and engineering.
• Bachelors degree in Engineering ,computer Science ,IT or job related field required .
• Expert-level proficiency in Java and Spring Boot, with a proven track record of designing and developing scalable enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with messaging and middleware technologies, including Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, or similar event-driven/integration platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to build, enhance, and support high-performance distributed systems in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Experience with application integration, messaging patterns, and asynchronous communication frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues and drive technical solutions.

Desired Qualifications:

• Having experience in Trading Domain is Desired .

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1500 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 5 (NJ2150)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$102,900.00 - $179,900.00 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.