Software Engineer II - Equities Cash Technology (ECT) Team

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We drive Responsible Growth and deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day. We foster an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career, and contribute to our shared success. Our culture supports physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive, and flexible benefits. We value diverse perspectives shaped by military service, community college education, and varied work and life experiences, which strengthen our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development with clear in-office expectations and flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

About the role

The Equities Cash Technology (ECT) team supports the Electronic Trading and High Touch business in Global Markets. The team provides innovative solutions for low-touch trading, including FIX connectivity, low-latency client and market connectivity, order management, post-trade reporting, smart order routing, algorithmic trading, and internal crossing. The team operates globally with a strong presence in AMRS, EMEA, and APAC.

This role requires a strategic mindset, an ability to understand technology development, transformation, and change management at scale. It demands a strong customer service mindset to support our growing equities trading franchise and the ability to leverage data for transparent management, risk identification, and consistent delivery.

Responsibilities

• Code solutions and unit tests to deliver requirements/stories per defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilize multiple architectural components (data, application, business) in the design and development of client requirements.
• Perform Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities.
• Contribute to story refinement and definition of requirements.
• Participate in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Contribute to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause.
• Perform spikes/proofs of concept to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Design and develop complex requirements to accomplish business goals.
• Ensure software meets functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.
• Design solutions with maintainability, ease of integration, and testing in mind from the outset.

Requirements

• In-depth understanding of core Java APIs (collections, concurrency, NIO).
• Extensive experience with multithreaded systems, Java garbage collector, and low-latency I/O.
• Automation-first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly shift-left testing.
• Practical experience in an Electronic Trading environment within an investment bank or similar.
• Familiarity with test-driven development, UML, and OO design.
• Experience with Eclipse/IntelliJ, Jenkins, Git, TeamCity, Gradle, and continuous build servers.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol (heart-beating, login, sequence numbers, message types).
• In-depth experience with sockets and network connectivity.
• Demonstrable experience in front-office system design and architecture.
• Ability to work with and mentor junior team members, as well as take technical direction from team leads.
• Experience with Order Management systems, including analytics.
• Knowledge of architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments.
• Hands-on experience with Agile and test-driven development.
• Strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry, with extensive experience using design and architectural patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 2+ years of relevant work experience (desired).

Skills

• Application Development
• Automation
• Collaboration
• DevOps Practices
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• User Experience Design
• Analytical Thinking
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Test Engineering

Schedule

• 1st shift (United States of America).
• 40 hours per week.