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Software Engineer III

Chicago, Illinois
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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.

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:

  • Strong Python fundamentals and previous Python coding experience with expertise in object-oriented programming. You will develop, enhance and support an efficient, reusable, testable, scalable and performant code with special attention to high availability, low latency, data protection, security and automation.
    • 4+ years of development experience in these skillsets:
    • Core Python fundamentals and programming
    • Object-oriented programming
    • Working with Python libraries like Pandas, NumPy, etc.
    • Object oriented and Relational Database knowledge
    • Code packaging, release, and deployment
    • Code versioning tools like Git, SVN, etc

Desired Qualifications:

  • Good design sense with ability to apply Design principles that are executable for a scalable application.
  • Experience in robust testing and debugging software applications with Python test framework tools like Behave, Pytest, PyUnit, etc.
  • Innovative mindset. Not afraid to ask why and question established practices, always looking to own and improve quality via automation and tooling.
  • Strong understanding of agile methodology, with an emphasis on test driven development continuous integration.
  • Strong analytical skills required to develop solutions for complex business requirements.
  • Team player and collaborative. You will be expected to liaise with both technical and business colleagues locally in Singapore and at other locations in UK, India, New York and Chicago. You will work as part of a wider development team spread between London, Singapore and India.
  • Good communicator to fellow developers, management and business stakeholders.
  • Can pick up new technologies and concepts and apply them to your day to day work.
  • Work independently

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

Bachelors degree in Computer Science

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Learn more about this role

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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.

Narrator: What would you like the power to do? Bank of America.

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What would you like the power to do?®

Bank of America® logo

Learn more at careers.bankofamerica.com

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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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

Street Address

Primary Location:

540 W Madison St, IL, Chicago, 60661