Software Engineer III- Java

Bank of America

Addison, Illinois, United StatesFull-timePosted Oct 26, 2026

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!

Position Summary:

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.We are looking for a Senior Level JAVA developer with relational database experience working for the Business Rules management system. This position requires core Java Development, experience with writing rules using IBM ODM product, Production Analysis & the ability of forward thinking. This position also requires cross functional activity and integration with the LOB, Application Developers, Architects, and Infrastructure partners. Strong communication skills will be needed to ensure the correct work is delivered in a timely manner. This environment can be fast paced at times.

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)

Designs, develops and is accountable for feature delivery

Applies enterprise standards for solution design, coding and quality

Ensures solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt

Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria

Plays a team member role (as an individual contributor)

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the requirement, design scalable, fault tolerant, performant, and secure solution.

Lead the low-level technical design and ensure overall code quality, conducting code reviews to maintain high development standards

Ensure deployment readiness, focusing on production preparation, performance optimization and addressing database tasks for smooth delivery.

Manage defects and collaborate with developers, testers, and business analysts to ensure timely resolution and successful release delivery.

Ensure the solution meets product acceptance criteria with minimal technical debt.

Works with the Product Owner to ensure that product backlog/requirements are healthy, with clear acceptance criteria.

Guides team members with skills and practices (planning and estimation, peer reviews, and other engineering practices)

Required Qualifications

Minimum 10+ years’ of relevant IT software experience (hands on technical development)

Deep understanding of multi-tier architectures and exposure to Java/J2EE, JavaScript/CSS, JUnit.

Must have strong background on Java core development, working knowledge with WAS, Tomcat app servers

Cloud: Must have experience on Cloud environments, knowledge on Kubernetes containers, microservices development using Spring boot

Experience in containerization using Docker or Padman . Knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) is a plus

Database: RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, ETL

OS: Linux, windows

Prior experience of working on core java middleware process and IBM ODM rule development

Quick learner and self-starter who requires minimal supervision to excel in a dynamic environment

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Expertise in developing applications using Java/J2EE Technologies like JDBC, JSP, JSF, Servlets, JPA, Java Beans, Spring IOC, AOP and JMS.

Worked on frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring MVC/IOC/JDBC/AOP/Context.

Having experience with Cloud Computing environment like OpenShift Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Proficient in Analysis, Design, Development, Architecture, Coding, Testing and implementation of Client/Server, Internet and Legacy Applications.

Desired Qualifications:

Knowledge of Autosys, WebSphere application server, tomcat.

Agile driven development·

Knowledge of AG Grid.·

Familiarity with Devops Tools like -Github, BitBucket,·

Works independently, share technical expertise with team members.·

Interacts efficiently with internal contacts/teams to drive through the solution and solve problems·

Strong communication skills; proactively bring forward concerns·

Worked on continuous development in CI/CD·

Explore opportunity for improvement

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Responsibilities

  • Develop, test, and deliver Java solutions that meet business, compliance, and acceptance requirements.
  • Design scalable, secure, fault-tolerant solutions and maintain application architecture integrity.
  • Lead low-level technical design, code reviews, and feature delivery.
  • Build and maintain automated integration, regression, and performance test suites.
  • Prepare deployments, optimize performance, and address database tasks and production defects.
  • Collaborate with product owners, developers, testers, business analysts, architects, and infrastructure partners.
  • Mentor engineers and guide planning, estimation, peer reviews, and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant hands-on software development experience.
  • Strong core Java and Java/J2EE experience, including JDBC, JSP, JSF, Servlets, JPA, Spring, and JMS.
  • Experience with relational databases, Oracle, SQL, and ETL.
  • Experience with cloud environments, Kubernetes, microservices, and Spring Boot.
  • Experience with IBM ODM rule development and core Java middleware processes.
  • Working knowledge of WebSphere or Tomcat, Docker or Podman, and Linux or Windows.
  • Strong understanding of multi-tier architecture, development, testing, and design patterns.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

  • Affordable, competitive, and flexible benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellness.
  • Opportunities to learn, grow, and develop a career.
  • Inclusive workplace and a culture of collaboration and engagement.

Skills mentioned

JavaSQLOracle DatabaseSpring BootMicroservicesJUnitKubernetesDockerAWSCI/CD

About Bank of America

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individuals, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company serves approximately 56 million U.S. consumer and small business relationships. It is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/32FDdQr. For account issues, please visit: https://bit.ly/2GeTIeP.

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H-1B sponsorship history

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