Senior Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Engineer

Corporate Title:  Director

Location:  Bromley

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location Overview:

Our London office is based just a stone’s throw from the magnificent St. Paul’s Cathedral on bustling King Edward Street. Here you’ll find modern workspaces and a state-of-the-art auditorium space. In addition, we’re proud to host an onsite restaurant that shares our commitment to sustainability by providing delicious seasonal menus which have been created with the planet in mind. Make sure to take time for yourself and head up to our rooftop terrace and take in the spectacular views across London. Finally, your physical wellness is well-catered for with our onsite gym facilities and medical centre.

Role Description:

We have an amazing opportunity for an experienced Engineer to become part of Quartz Core Platform's database team, you will be building and re-architecting a globally eventually consistent object/data store with ~20 Petabytes of data, ~30 billion Transactions written daily and ~6 million concurrent connections world-wide.

You should already have development experience, designing and implementing database servers or large distributed caching systems.

Quartz has for over a decade revolutionized the way Global Markets does business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Quartz has been the primary platform for pricing trades, managing positions, and computing risk exposure. Thousands of developers are using the highly agile platform to deliver applications to tens of thousands of end users. As a part of the Quartz team, you will contribute to the technology that will re define the future of our business.

Responsibilities:

The Quartz Platform team is now starting a core refresh of the platform to modernize with capabilities required to meet our user’s future needs. We are looking to add an experienced software engineers with solid CS knowledge and proof of delivery on at least one large project in a relevant area (in a PhD or prior job). This person needs to be able to own and independently implement one part of a complex project, while collaborating effectively with the owners of the other parts.

What we are looking for:

•           C++

•           Python

•           B-tree implementation details

•           core database design concepts (transactionality, journaling.

•           Distributed Database technologies

•           Contributed to Database projects (such as mysql, postgress, couchDB, Hadup, Apache Hive.

Skills that will help:

•           Networking

•           Security & RBAC

•           Linux Kernal Internals

•           Object vs Structured Data serialization ProtoBuff/Pickle.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

UK

•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

•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 etc.

•Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

•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 the UK’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.