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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.
Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.
At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!
Position Summary:
We are looking for a high‑impact Software Engineer III who brings deep, hands‑on expertise in Python backend systems and modern JavaScript‑based front‑end development. The ideal candidate will play a key role in designing and delivering full‑stack, production‑ready solutions, applying strong engineering principles, collaborating closely across teams, and driving high standards of quality in a dynamic Agile environment.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Understand client requirements and translate in application features.
- Collaborate with a team of IT professionals to set specifications for new applications.
- Design creative prototypes according to specifications using UI/UX
- Write high quality source code.
- Perform unit and integration testing.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications.
- Evaluate existing applications to reprogram, update and add new features.
- Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of professional experience in full‑stack software development, delivering production‑grade applications with a strong understanding of frontend UI layers, backend services, APIs, and data access patterns
- Strong proficiency in Python, with hands‑on experience building backend services using Fast API or Flask, and developing modern, responsive user interfaces with JavaScript frameworks such as React.
- Demonstrates strong capability to drive and document technical designs, producing high‑quality artifacts such as architecture diagrams, API specifications, and clearly articulate design decisions
- Hands‑on experience working with microservices architectures and distributed application designs
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including schema design, data modeling, and performance considerations
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated build processes, testing, and deployment workflows
- Proficiency with Git and standard version‑control practices in collaborative development environments
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery models, contributing to iterative development, planning, and timely delivery
- Strong ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams, including product, UX, QA, DevOps, and platform engineering
- Experience with AI‑assisted or AI‑driven development, including integrating ML/LLM endpoints or using AI tools to improve developer productivity
- Experience with agentic AI development, particularly hands‑on work with LLM‑driven autonomous or semi‑autonomous agents and agent orchestration frameworks.
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization, and scalable deployment patterns
- Exposure to observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and performance tuning
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.
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)
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 - 1300 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 3 (NJ2130)
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.
