Software Engineer III

About the role

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 and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening 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. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

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.

Tech Lead is responsible for the end-to-end design, engineering, and maturation of the GBP strategic payments tracking and observability tool, with a focus on .NET services and the data engineering pipelines that ingest, enrich, and correlate payment events at scale.

Responsibilities:

Codes solutions in C#/.NET 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

Designs, builds, and maintains batch and streaming data pipelines that ingest, transform, and correlate payment lifecycle data from multiple upstream systems, ensuring data quality, lineage, and timeliness

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), including data validation and reconciliation checks

Required Qualifications

Strong proficiency in C# and modern .NET (including ASP.NET Core) with experience building scalable, high performance backend services and APIs

Hands on experience with Python for data processing, ETL/ELT, automation, and integration scripting

Deep understanding of SQL with ability to design, optimise, and query large, complex relational databases

Experience working with MongoDB including schema design, performance tuning, and document oriented data modelling

Proven data engineering experience designing and operating batch and streaming pipelines (e.g. Kafka), including data modelling, data quality controls, and lineage

Strong capability in modern frontend development using React, including reusable component design and API integration

Solid understanding of microservices architectures, API design, and distributed systems patterns

Experience building and maintaining enterprise grade platforms with high throughput and reliability requirements

Ability to design resilient systems with appropriate error handling, observability, and fault tolerance

Strong debugging and problem solving skills across complex integrated systems

Experience delivering technical roadmaps, setting engineering standards, and guiding development best practices

Skills:

Application Development

.NET Development

Automation

Influence

Solution Design

Technical Strategy Development

Architecture

Business Acumen

DevOps Practices

Result Orientation

Solution Delivery Process

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Data Engineering

Data Management

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St - 101 Hudson (NJ2101)

Pay and benefits information

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.