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Senior Engineer

Pennington, New Jersey
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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 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

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years experience Java development

  • Should have integration development experience with following skills: Java/J2EE, Web Services (SOAP, REST), Object-Oriented Programming, Spring MVC Framework

  • Should have strong, hands-on JAVA/J2EE knowledge to write code, design patterns, troubleshoot code issues

  • Highly skilled FinOps Engineer with strong expertise in AWS Cloud architecture

  • Should have strong client side (User Interface) technologies experience like: Bootstrap, HTML, Jquery, Ajax, JavaScript, CSS, ExtJS, Angular, React, JSF, JSP

  • Able to lead service API design, create and manage reusable artifacts and interface specifications (XSD/WSDL /WADL/Swagger/OpenAPI/YAML/RAML)

  • Should have experience in troubleshooting multiple platform and tiered environments

  • Should have hands-on experience working with databases like MS SQL Server, Oracle

  • Ability to work with business users and business partners in gathering requirements, analyzing technical specifications and generating design documents

  • Must have strong verbal and written communication skills and organizational awareness with prior experience across financial industry

  • Experience with build and development tools like Eclipse

  • Experience with XML/JSON, JMS, jQuery and SQL

  • Application of IT Governance policies, Portfolio Road mapping, Release management, Metrics creation

  • Competency in Architecture methods, API strategy, and Lean Agile delivery and optimization

  • Working delivery experience with process modeling, information modeling, business analysis, business taxonomies, and data dictionaries

  • Define and support architecture principles, patterns, and implementation best practices - able to consult and guide resolution on technical issues.

  • Able to provide education and inspire change through persuasive documentation and presentations

  • 2+ years Working with Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL and SQL Developer Tools such as Toad Source Control Management (SCM), Rapid Development cycles and automated deployment services like Maven, uDeploy, GIT, SVN, etc.

  • Must be a team player and proactive in helping other teammates to achieve the team deliverables

  • Must be able to work independently with minimal guidance

  • Must have ability to translate requirements provided by Business Analysts and provide wire framing design

Desired Skills:

  • Able to work on homegrown applications and extend functionality as required; comfortable building multi page Web Applications from scratch

  • Knowledge of Application Server integration; JBoss 5 or later preferred

  • Knowledge of Apache Web Server preferred

  • 7+ years of hands-on development experience in JAVA / J2EEE is required

  • 2+ years working Knowledge of Linux environments

  • Experience connecting to and using Enterprise Databases and Middleware

Skills:

  • Automation

  • Influence

  • Result Orientation

  • Stakeholder Management

  • Technical Strategy Development

  • Application Development

  • Architecture

  • Business Acumen

  • Risk Management

  • Solution Design

  • Agile Practices

  • Analytical Thinking

  • Collaboration

  • Data Management

  • Solution Delivery Process

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.

New Jersey pay range:

$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 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:

1300 American Blvd, NJ, Pennington, 08534