Software Engineer II - Java/J2EE

HITEC; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Full stack Software Development Engineer to join the Erica, Chat and Voice Technology team. The role requires strong Java/J2EE skills and experience with client and server-side technologies to build AI and search platforms for banking assistants across multiple platforms.

The successful candidate will write unit and integration tests, perform code reviews, and contribute to agile team delivery with strong problem-solving abilities and collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience using Java/J2EE.
• Excellent communication for technical and business conversations.
• Strong analytical skills to break down requirements and solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a story per acceptance criteria.
• Use multiple architectural layers in design and development.
• Participate in CI/CD activities and refine requirements.
• Estimate work and contribute to test suites and issue triage.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as needed to mitigate risk.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Interpersonal communication

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Spring MVC

RESTful Web Services

NoSQL Cassandra

Hazelcast

Redis

Elasticsearch

SOLR

Groovy

Scala

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.

Position Summary:

This is a Full stack Software Development Engineer role in Bank of America Erica, Chat and Voice Technology team.. The Team builds next generation AI and Search platforms for the bank enabling banking assistants and search across multiple platforms. This position requires candidate to be well versed with client side and server side technologies. Candidate must possess passion for producing high quality software, ready to jump in and solve complex problems and perform code reviews. Candidate is expected to write unit and integration test and should be familiar to perform hybrid engineering tasks within the agile team.

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) activitiesContributes 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

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands on software development experience using Java / J2EE technologies
• Good interpersonal communication skills for tech and business conversations
• Good analytical skills to break down requirements, solve complex problems

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on high volume applications
• Experience in server side frameworks like Spring MVC
• Experience building restful web services
• Experience in performance tuning with good understanding of JVM internals
• Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra
• Experience in distributed caching frameworks like hazelcast, ignite, redis
• Experience in modern JVM languages like groovy, scala
• Experience with open source search engines like SOLR, elasticsearch
• Experience working with NLP and Machine learning
• Prior open source contributions
• Proven task management and leadership skills
• Experience working in agile teams

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

Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

405 years experience