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.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements

• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements

• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities

• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements

• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle

• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause

• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications:

• Candidates should have strong computer science background, critical thinking, problem solving, and interpersonal skill along with a willingness to be highly collaborative in coming up with solutions.

• Responsible for development effort of many critical application in payments, wealth for authentication, authorization and support operational excellence with never-down strategy.

• Designs, develops, enhances, debugs, supports, maintains and tests applications that support business units and functions.

• Participates in the design, development and implementation of complex distributed applications.

• Proven hands-on experience (5-7 years) as a Full Stack developer with hands-on knowledge of JAVA, Spring Framework, Agile, Containers, MicroServices, REST Services.

• Web services development with SOAP/REST frameworks using multiple protocols.

• Relational database experience and demonstrated abilities in using SQL.

• Working knowledge of using Agile methodology in a fast paced environment and supporting program increments leading to delivery of features/stories.

• Demonstrated record of developing successful applications that are highly integrated and reliable

• Candidates should have the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

• Works under minimal supervision, with general guidance from more seasoned tech leads.

Desired Qualifications:

• 6+ years of relevant work experience

• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role

• Demonstrated experience with Git, BitBucket, Jenkins, Ansible, Artifactory, Sonar, and JIRA.

• Working knowledge with KAFKA, MQ, Cassandra(NovSQL)

• Experience in Redis and Cochroach DB.

• Coordinating with external vendors and assisting in resolving technical complexities.

• Facilitates team planning ceremonies against backlog /prioritized work;

• Understands risks and can apply the controls necessary to mitigate; Knows when to escalate risks.

• Experience working with financial applications

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Pay Transparency details

US - WA - Seattle - 401 Union St - Rainier Square (WA1510)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$88,800.00 - $144,800.00 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.