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.

LOB Summary:

This role focuses on designing, developing, and enhancing backend components that power the Global Markets Trade Surveillance platform. The system monitors trade and order activity, detects potential market-misconduct patterns, and supports regulatory investigations in alignment with compliance and industry standards. The engineer ensures solutions meet functional, non-functional, and regulatory requirements while maintaining strong design integrity, scalability, and testability.

The position contributes to modernizing the surveillance engine, integrating GenAI-based capabilities, improving detection accuracy, and optimizing analyst workflows. The engineer works closely with Compliance, Surveillance SMEs, Platform Engineering, and Production Support across the full delivery lifecycle.

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:

• 4+ years of backend development experience, ideally within Trade Surveillance or Global Markets technology. 
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems. 
• Experience designing and deploying scalable, production-grade software. 
• Experience building Gen AI based Agentic Applications using Langgraph & CrewAI
• Knowledge of RESTful API design principles. 
• Familiarity with container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Docker. 
• Hands-on experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines. 
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Organized, detail-driven, and comfortable operating in fast-paced environments. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
• Familiarity with Agile practices (scrum, backlog refinement, sprint planning). 

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with surveillance or regulatory systems. 
• Exposure to GenAI application development. 
• Understanding of capital markets and trading workflows.

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

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

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