Senior Rates eTrading Tech Lead - Low-Latency Pricing

Bank of America; Bromley; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension plan

Maternity/paternity leave

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Bank of America in Bromley is seeking a Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead to modernize and expand our front office eTrading platforms for Rates across global desks. This hands-on technical leadership role requires Java expertise, low-latency design, real-time pricing, and collaboration with traders, quants, and engineers to deliver scalable, observable systems and strategic roadmaps.

You will champion best practices, CI/CD, automated testing, and cross-team delivery to improve performance

Qualifications

• Hands on Java development and technical leadership experience is a must-have with demonstrated ability to design and implement the architecture, development, and deployment.
• Engineering, Science, Math, or similar degree.
• Experience as a lead software engineer building electronic trading solutions.
• Ability to work in a team-oriented setting.
• Organized and able to prioritize effectively across workstreams.
• Highly experienced in leveraging platforms for development including Linux, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Maven, Git/Bitbucket, Artifactory, automation scripting.
• High proficiency in data architecture, schemas, and data workflows.
• Good experience in software engineering real-time trading system design principles - message-driven, event based architecture, TCP, UDP, Multicast - low latency performance and scaling - multithreading - service oriented interface driven architecture - object oriented design.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance, low latency components for fixed income eTrading and pricing workflows.
• Developing frameworks and core services to enable real-time order execution, auto-quoting, algo engines, pricing services, collaborating with quant and algo teams.
• Champion best development practices including agile iterative development, pairing, code reviews, CI/CD, automated testing, loosely coupled interface design, disciplines and principles for scalability and re-use.
• Refactor and modernize existing code and improving performance, design, and observability metrics of existing and new components
• Working with technology partners and business groups in the region and globally
• Work with the management, horizontal teams, and stakeholders to help define and deliver the strategic roadmap.
• Work with engineers, production support staff, and traders

Skills

Java development

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Trading systems

DevOps tooling

Data architecture

Real-time systems design

Education

Engineering, Science, Math, or similar degree

Tools

Linux

Ansible Tower

Jenkins

Maven

Git/Bitbucket

Artifactory

Automation scripting

FIX protocol

FpML

Job description

Bank of America in Bromley is seeking a Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead to modernize and expand our front office eTrading platforms for Rates across global desks. This hands-on technical leadership role requires Java expertise, low-latency design, real-time pricing, and collaboration with traders, quants, and engineers to deliver scalable, observable systems and strategic roadmaps.

You will champion best practices, CI/CD, automated testing, and cross-team delivery to improve performance