Software Engineer III - Python / (CI/CD)

Bank of America; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 103,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America in Jersey City is seeking an experienced engineer to own and support application operations, delivering complex requirements while ensuring compliance and maintainability. You will manage code promotions, release management, and production deployments across environments.

Role requires strong Python development, CI/CD discipline, and collaboration across multiple teams; mentoring others and guiding architecture decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role.
• Software development experience with Python.
• Proficient with CI/CD best practices.
• Knowledge of GitHub Copilot or similar tooling.
• Ability to coordinate across many developers and teams.
• Ability to document code architecture and designs.
• Ability to code test tools.
• Assists operations team with maintenance tasks.
• Documents the Application architecture on wiki and updates monthly releases.
• Oversees the Release quality including CI builds and test failures.
• Contributes Python tests to improve coverage.
• Attends daily scrums with development teams.
• Manage application releases in coordination with Operations.
• Documents Release artifacts on Wiki.

Responsibilities

• Codes solutions and unit tests to meet acceptance criteria.
• Designs and maintains architecture components and interfaces.
• Mentors engineers on CI/CD practices and tooling automation.
• Refines stories and estimates work for delivery lifecycle.
• Performs spike/proof of concept for risk mitigation.
• Automates manual release activities.
• Maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance).

Skills

Python

CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Team coordination

Documentation

Test tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub Copilot

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, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to industry and design and architectural patterns.

This role is for an Engineer to own and support application operations. Responsibilities include managing multiple daily code promotions across lower environments, lad release management and production deployments, ensuring compliance, stability, and accountability.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in programming language(s) required for the role
• Software development experience with Python
• Proficient with (CI/CD) Continuous Integration and Continuous Development best practices
• Knowledge of github copilot or other developer code agentic tooling
• Ability to coordinate across many developers and teams
• Ability to document code architecture and designs
• Ability to code test tools
• Assists operations team, handling Application Owner questions and maintenance tasks
• Documents the Application architecture on wiki, and keeps the documentation up to date with each monthly code release
• Oversees the Release quality which includes continuous integration builds, unit test failures, and chases developers for test failures and fixes
• Contributes python tests to increase code coverage, improve integration and regression tests, and improve application quality
• Attends daily scrums with development teams
• Manage application releases in coordination with Operations
• Documents Release artifacts on Wiki

Desired Qualifications

• Quartz development experience
• Quartz Release experience
• Quartz testing experience

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Minimum Education Requirement:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work 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 information

Pay range

$102,900.00 - $179,900.00 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.