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 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!

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.

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

Position Summary:

This is a Senior Software Engineer role in Bank of America Authentication Technology team, responsible for identity and access management for all channels – mobile, desktop, IVR, contact center etc., We are looking for a strong hands-on engineering talent to help deliver several key priorities including migrating to cloud and containers. Candidate should have prior experience building high volume authentication systems with command over all layers of the stack. Team owns the full stack from front end, services, databases, and reporting. Candidate must have passion for clean code, producing defect free software, ready to jump in and solve complex problems, perform code reviews. Candidate is expected to innovate regularly by participating in ideation sessions and filing patents. 

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on software development, experienced in at least one statically typed language (i.e. -  Java or C++) and one dynamically typed language (i.e. -  Groovy or Python)
• 5+ years of leading, mentoring other engineers
• 5+ years of building high volume web applications
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Building and deploying applications in cloud and containers
• Secure coding and best practices
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills for tech and business conversations

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Identify and Access Management, server-side frameworks like Spring MVC, building restful web services
• Ability in multiple JVM languages, performance tuning with good understanding of JVM internals
• Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra and using distributed caching frameworks
• Background in mathematics or statistics
• Agile team process experience
• Open-source 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

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