Senior Engineer - Rates eTrading

Bank of America Corporation; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America Corporation seeks a Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead to modernize and extend front-office eTrading platforms supporting Rates products globally. This hands-on technical leadership role requires expertise in low-latency architectures, market data, execution, and pricing workflows.

You will partner with tech management, traders and quants to deliver strategic initiatives across modernization, scalability, and performance while driving agile practices, testing, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on Java development and technical leadership experience.
• Experience as a lead software engineer building electronic trading solutions.
• Ability to communicate ideas and architecture principles clearly.
• Strong teamwork and organizational prioritization across workstreams.
• Experience with Linux, Jenkins, Maven, Git/Bitbucket, Artifactory and automation scripting.

Responsibilities

• Defines the technology stack for the solution and evaluates new tools and frameworks.
• Leads CI/CD capabilities and collaborates with stakeholders for efficient pipelines.
• Guides team on design and performance best practices, including code reviews.
• Delivers end-to-end features across multiple teams and programs.
• Builds high-performance, low-latency components for eTrading and pricing workflows.
• Partners with traders, quants and engineers to define requirements and roadmap.

Skills

Java development

Technical leadership

Clear communication

CI/CD

Linux

Jenkins

Maven

Git/Bitbucket

Automation scripting

Tools

Ansible Tower

Job description

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 defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Profile Summary

A Senior Rates eTrading Development Lead is required to modernize and expand our front-office eTrading platforms that support Rates products across multiple lines of businesses globally. This is a hand-on technical leadership role that will bring expertise in software engineering best practices, architecting and building low-latency D2C and D2D algos, market data connectivity, execution workflows, internalization, and pricing. This role will help lead the technical architecture and delivery of strategic initiatives that span across business enablement/growth, platform modernization, stability, performance, and innovation. The candidate will have deep experience in front-office eTrading systems and be a key partner to tech management, software engineers, quantitative analysts, and traders.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution

• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)

• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline

• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance -e.g. pairing, code reviews

• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level

• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features

• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• Clear articulate communication skills - Ability to communicate ideas, design, and architecture principles. Thrives in a collaborative environment and is able to break problems down analytically to work through solutions.

• Hands on Java development and technical leadership experience is a must-have with demonstrated ability to design and implement the architecture, development, and deployment.

• 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