Software Engineer III
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 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.
Position Summary:
Looking for a Senior Hands on SRE/DevOps Architect for our SRE team deployed to the electronic execution and algo platforms across Equities, Futures, FX and Options asset classes. Will be required to automate and enhance processes for supporting the various trading applications in our Algo Trading, Liquidity Seeking and Matching Engines spaces. You will take an important role aiming to improve quality and efficiency of the SRE team, working with multiple partners across technology and business.
- Building and implementing new and existing automation tools
- Working on ways to automate and improve development, build, test and release processes
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure from identified vulnerabilities
- Application and process configuration management
- Provide documentation and training on how to properly use the automated tools and processes
- Collaborate with core Tools team, development teams and business to ease the applications into new requirements
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)
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in Trading Platforms
- Expert as an SRE / DevOps Architect Engineer or in a similar software engineering role
- Expert with GIT, Bitbacuket, Jenkins, JIRA, CI/CD workflows
- Expert with shell scripts, python or other scripting languages
- Ability to manage hierarchical and complex configuration structures
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong focus on managing risk and identifying critical dependencies
- Problem-solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
- Agile process compliance
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:
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Bank of America® logo
Software Engineer
Software Engineer: At Bank of America, the code I write every day helps keep our systems running for millions of people.
[Software Engineer writing code at his desk]
As a Software Engineer, I feel like I’m on the front lines of creating what the enterprise needs to compete in the digital space – from trading apps to market systems to backend services.
[Mobile banking app screens shown]
That means writing code, working with the team and solving problems together.
[Software Engineer working with colleagues in a meeting room]
I'm part of Strategic Data Initiatives, using modern development practices, state-of-the-art frameworks, and cloud-native services to build what the business needs. The key is collaboration; whether I’m working with product managers, quality assurance, or teaming up with other designers.
[Software Engineer moving sticky notes on a kanban board]
From legacy systems to performance tuning, it’s like our team is tackling a jigsaw puzzle, and I can take real ownership of my pieces, even when there’s more than one way forward. I’ve got full support from mentors and leadership, which helps me develop as an engineer while gaining expertise in new tech.
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Skill Growth
Career Mobility
Best of all, as my skills grow, so do the opportunities to move to new teams and take on bigger responsibilities.
[Software Engineer shakes hands with supervisor]
And through our day-to-day practices and retrospectives, I have a chance to be part of a group that becomes more collaborative and impactful with each shared win. Plus, I’m given what I need to feel valued, with flexible work schedules, learning stipends, and programs that let me prioritize my health and wellness.
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Build relationships
Build communities
Build careers
We all have goals.
Pursue yours at Bank of America.
I’m proud to be part of a team that’s building the future of banking – one line of code at a time. We all have goals. Pursue yours at Bank of America.
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What would you like the power to do?®
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On screen disclosure:
EOE disability/veteran. ©2025 Bank of America Corporation. All rights reserved.
MAP 8651837 Expiration Date: 06/05/2027
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Full time
JR-26007337
Manages People: No
Travel: No
Age requirement: Must at least be 18 years of age.
Illinois 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
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