Senior Software Engineer

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 defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Position Summary:

This Senior Engineer role is part of Bank of America's Digital Technology organization, supporting the Digital Investments and Financial Planning portfolio. The role is responsible for designing, developing, and modernizing mission-critical platforms that enable digital investing, financial planning, portfolio management, and wealth management capabilities for clients and advisors. We are looking for a highly skilled, hands-on engineer with experience in designing and building scalable, high-availability, and secure applications in a complex enterprise environment. The successful candidate will drive modernization initiatives leveraging cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, and container platforms while ensuring operational excellence, resiliency, and regulatory compliance. The engineer will collaborate across product, business, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions, enforce engineering best practices, perform code reviews, mentor team members, and contribute to the organization's innovation agenda through thought leadership, and continuous technology advancement.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Drive Architecture and Technology Strategy
• Lead Complex Engineering Delivery and Operational Excellence
• Accelerate Innovation and Develop Engineering Talent

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering large-scale enterprise applications with deep expertise in Java and/or .NET technologies
• 8+ years of architecture leadership experience defining solution architectures, technology roadmaps, and modernization strategies across multiple applications and teams
• Proven experience building and supporting high-volume, highly available, customer-facing digital platforms in complex enterprise environments
• Strong expertise in microservices, API-first architecture, cloud-native development, event-driven systems, containers, and CI/CD practices
• Deep understanding of application security, secure software development practices, authentication/authorization, and regulatory compliance requirements
• Experience leading cross-functional teams, conducting architecture and design reviews, mentoring engineers, and driving engineering excellence
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Digital Investments, Wealth Management, Financial Planning, Trading, Brokerage, or Financial Services technology platforms
• Expertise with modern Java frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud) and/or .NET, including performance, scalability, and resiliency engineering
• Experience leading large-scale cloud migration, application modernization, and platform transformation initiatives
• Knowledge of event streaming, distributed caching, enterprise integration patterns, and data platforms such as SQL Server, Oracle, Kafka, or similar technologies
• Demonstrated track record of innovation through patents, proof-of-concepts, architecture leadership, technology strategy, or industry contributions

Skills:

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

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

$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 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.