Software Engineer II - Equities Cash Technology (ECT) Team

National Black MBA Association; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 89,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a skilled Java engineer to develop and deliver complex requirements for electronic trading systems. You will design, test, and integrate solutions across data, application, and business layers to enable low-latency, high-throughput processes.

The role emphasizes CI/CD, TDD, and collaboration with front-office teams. Strong Java, FIX protocol, UML/OO, and cloud/container experience are expected; a bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong Java, multithreaded systems, and low-latency IO experience.
• Familiar with CI/CD and testing practices.
• Experience with FIX protocol and trading workflows.
• Knowledge of cloud and containerized environments.
• Understanding of front office trading systems and risk considerations.

Responsibilities

• Codes solutions and unit tests to meet acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilizes multiple architectural components across data, application, and business in design.
• Performs CI/CD activities to ensure rapid, safe deployments.
• Contributes to story refinement and requirements definition.
• Estimates work needed to realize a story through delivery lifecycle.
• Participates in test suites and triages issues from test results.

Skills

Java

Multithreaded systems

Low latency IO

CI/CD

UML

OO design

TDD

Sockets

Front office design

Cloud/Container environments

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Tools

Eclipse/IntelliJ

Jenkins

Git

TeamCity

Gradle

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 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.

Profile Position Summary

The Equities Cash Technology (ECT) team support the Electronic Trading and High Touch business in the Global Markets. The team provides innovative solutions for low touch trading, which includes FIX connectivity, low latency client, market connectivity, order management, post trade reporting, smart order routing, algorithmic trading and internal crossing. The team is global with a strong presence in every region (AMRS, EMEA and APAC). The role requires a strategic mindset, an ability to understand technology development, transformation and change management at scale, a strong customer service mindset in support of our growing equities trading franchise and an ability to leverage data to manage transparently, identify risks and drive consistent delivery.

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
• Responsible for designing and developing complex requirements to accomplish business goals.
• Ensures that software is developed to meet functional, non‑functional, and compliance requirements.
• Ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built‑in from the outset.
• Contributes to story refinement/defining requirements.

Required Qualifications:

In depth understanding of core Java API’s (collections, concurrency, nio etc) – Must have extensive understanding and proven industrial experience with multithreaded systems, working knowledge of the Java garbage collector, familiar with low latency IO

AI First approach

Enthusiastic, passionate engineer able to work closely with project teams in a multi‑faceted role

Automation first mindset across the software development lifecycle, particularly around shift‑left testing

Practical experience within an Electronic Trading environment in an investment bank or similar

Development practices - Use test driven development and be familiar with UML and OO design. Should have experience with Eclipse/IntelliJ, Jenkins, Git, TeamCity, Gradle and continuous build servers.

Knowledge of FIX (heart‑beating, login, sequence numbers, message types etc)

In‑depth experience of sockets and understanding of network connectivity

Demonstrable experience of front office system design and architecture

Team Player - Must be able to work with and help more junior members as well as take technical direction from the team lead.

Experience with Order Management systems, including analytics

Knowledge in architecting applications for Cloud and/or Containerized Environments

Practical, hands‑on experience with Agile and test‑driven development

Possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns.

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role
• Business Knowledge – Understanding of equities and FFO markets
• Strategic Thinking: Strategic vision, Business knowledge, Innovation & Creativity
• Business Results: Client relationships, Analytical ability, Execution, Change leadership
• People Leadership: Talent building, Meritocracy, Collaboration, Responsible Corporate Citizenship
• Personal Effectiveness: Communication, decisiveness, energy & drive, courage, character

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

Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Jersey City - 525 Washington Blvd (NJ2525)Pay and benefits informationPay range$88,800.00 - $144,800.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.Discretionary incentive eligibleThis 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.BenefitsThis 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.