Software Engineer II
Bank of America
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, 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.
Overview:
The opening is for Software Engineer II with a good knowledge on Core Java Coding and Testing.
Develops, enhances, debugs, supports, maintains and tests software applications that support business units or supporting functions. These application program solutions may involve diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technologies and tools
Participates in the development, and implementation of complex applications, often using new technologies
May provide technical direction and system architecture for individual initiatives
Attends Business discussions and workshops and gather requirements
Analyzes requirements and transform to technical Flow, aligned with existing project framework and design
May collaborate with external programmers to coordinate delivery of software application
Routine accountability is for technical knowledge and capabilities. Works under minimal supervision, with general guidance from more seasoned developers
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
As a Payments Technology Software Engineer II, you will be accountable for providing technical delivery as part of a development team delivering strategic capabilities on the Global Payments platform
This role ensures that technology solutions are designed, built, and delivered to meet both business outcomes and engineering standards, while enabling consistent, high-quality feature delivery across the team
You will partner closely with Product Owners, Architects, Feature Leads and Quality Engineers to translate product intent into well-designed, scalable, and secure technical solutions, while guiding the team on delivery practices, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement
Required Qualifications:
3+ years of hands-on experience in Software Engineering
Spring Framework
Microservices (REST) API Development
Cucumber Test Framework
Git
Oracle DB
Application Messaging – MQ
OS – UNIX and Windows
SVN , Bitbucket/GIT or related
REST API Development
Banking/Payment development experience
Good communication and stakeholder engagement skill
Desired Qualifications:
Hands-on experience in JAVA, J2EE, Spring framework, JMS
Hands-on experience in Mulesoft Anypoint platform development
Openshift
Kafka
AWS
2+ years of relevant work experience
Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role
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
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
$88,800.00 - $144,800.00 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.
Responsibilities
- Develop, test, and maintain software applications for the Global Payments platform.
- Design and deliver scalable, secure solutions aligned with business, compliance, and engineering requirements.
- Contribute to story refinement, estimates, continuous integration, and delivery activities.
- Maintain and improve integration, regression, and performance test suites; analyze results and resolve issues.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, feature leads, and quality engineers on technical delivery.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Experience with Spring Framework, REST microservices, Cucumber, Git, Oracle DB, messaging queues, and UNIX and Windows environments.
- Banking or payments development experience.
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Java, J2EE, JMS, Mulesoft Anypoint, OpenShift, Kafka, and AWS experience are desirable.
Benefits
- Benefits eligibility, including paid time off and employee support resources.
- Eligibility to participate in the annual discretionary incentive plan.
Skills mentioned
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.
H-1B sponsorship history
Historical employer filing data was found for Bank of America. The employer record includes 20 historical certified applications. This is employer-level history, not a guarantee that this role currently offers sponsorship.