Senior Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Engineer

Corp Title: VP

Location: - Bromley

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!

Location Overview:
Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll  find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Job Description:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Developer to join as a FICC Rates eTrading Senior Developer within our FICC Macro Rates Electronic Trading Technology team to contribute to the evolution of strategic FICC Rates eTrading platform for Global Rates eTrading business. The FICC Macro Rates Electronic Trading line of business has a serious commitment to expand its global electronic trading platform through the development of the evolving trading stacks catering to the global Rates eTrading needs. Key workflows also include low-latency dealer to client trading platform, client quoting, algorithmic hedging and execution, market data and market access solutions.

The eTrading front office technology team develops and supports the front-office applications responsible for electronically pricing, negotiating, market making, and hedging.

This role will be crucial in helping establish a world-class technology function focused on delivering results to support the Global Electronic Trading Rates businesses. You will be developing, supporting and owning the critical eTrading components within the in-house electronic trading stack, the applications for which are used primarily by various desks globally. The role will require close partnership with the tech lead/architect, functionally leading the efforts, mentoring the junior developers, having close interaction with the traders, understanding their requirements, and developing and/or enhancing existing solutions to meet their need.

Main Responsibilities

• Build high-performance, low latency components for fixed income eTrading workflows.

• Write high-quality production grade Java across latency sensitive, multi-threaded environment maintaining direct accountability for code quality and performance.

• Integrate tightly with internal algo engines, quant libraries and pricing services through well-defined interfaces, working collaboratively with quant and algo teams.

• Champion best development practices including pairing, code reviews, unit testing and regression testing.

• Profile, benchmark and continuously improve application performance, identifying and eliminating latency bottlenecks in the critical path.

• Work with technology partners and business groups in the region and globally to deliver high quality products in a fast-paced environment.

• Work with the management and horizontal teams to advance the strategic roadmap.

• Liaise with end-users to understand their requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Science / Engineering Degree

• Java – Hands on development and technical leadership experience in complex application development with a background in multi-threaded implementation and low-latency messaging

• Experience with Multi-threading, low latency, high performance components & applications (including GC tuning)

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and ability to coordinate different tasks and work with different stakeholder groups and demonstrate proactive-ness and high motivation.

• Ability to organize multiple competing tasks and priorities with a rapidly changing environment.

• Experience with versioning tools such as GIT, transport layer technology such as TCP/web socket, Refinitiv, Tibco Rendezvous

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills on Linux/Windows using profiling tools. 

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working in Fixed Income eTrading technology domain specializing in the D2C & D2D trading platforms.

• Familiarity with MiFID II front office context – understanding trading controls and obligations within eTrading domain

• Agile development practices with a focus on writing thorough and testable code.

• Experience with message-oriented middleware such as 29 West/Solace/AMPS/RV

Benefits of working at Bank of America:
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• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.

• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.

• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
  Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of theUK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.