Bank Of America Software Engineer II - GM Post Trade Technology 

United States, New Jersey, Jersey City 

506320091

Job Description:

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, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

As part of an Agile team, the candidate will work with users to refine requirements, design and develop high-quality and scalable systems, and assist users during the QA/UAT process. This is a hands-on, technical position with the expectation that a majority of the candidate’s time will be spent on active development tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
• Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
• Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
• Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
• Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years professional experience developing solutions with core Java

• 2+ years professional experience developing solutions with Scala or other functional language

• Experience writing Unit Tests and Acceptance/Behavior Tests

• Ability to deliver quality code on timely basis

• Strong data structure, algorithm and problem solving skills

• Experience and desire to work in an Agile environment (pair programming, daily stand-ups, etc.)

• Demonstrable knowledge of problem domain at previous employments

• Experience working on a team, sharing code base with continuous integration

• Willing to participate in production support

• Experience working in Linux/Unix environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Message-oriented-middleware (Kafka, AMQP, MQ, AMPS, etc.) experience

• Distributed systems experience

• Web Application development (JavaScript, AngularJS, Bootstrap, etc.)

• REST API design and development

• DDD/CQRS/Event sourced systems experience

• Relevant industry (banking middle/back office) experience

• Experience in scripting languages (Bash, Python, etc)

• Experience with automated deployment technologies (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker, etc.)

• Experience with 3rd party Scala libraries and frameworks (Scalactic, Scalatra, Akka, RxScala, TypeLevel libraries, etc.)

• Understanding of Category Theory

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

Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

1st shift (United States of America)