Software Engineer III - Global Payments Tech

Posted:
8/18/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States ⋅ New Jersey, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

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. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. 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 the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Software Engineer for Bank of America's Global Payments System.

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)

  • Responsible for developing and delivering complex software requirements to accomplish business goals.

  • Ensures that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements.

  • Codes solutions, unit tests, and ensures the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Familiar with development and testing practices of the bank. Contributes to story refinement/defining requirements.

  • Participates and guides team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.

  • Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas. Codes solutions and unit tests 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.

  • Assists team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.

  • Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyzes test reports, identifies any test issues/errors, and triages the underlying cause.

  • Documents and communicates required information for deployment, maintenance, support, and business functionality.

Required Qualifications

  • Basic knowledge on Money transfer system, ACI MTS

  • Experience of Unix/Linux system

  • Good analytical skills and experience with troubleshooting issues

  • Understanding of payment systems – SWIFT, Chips, FED, ISO20022.

  • Fluency in at least one programming language – Cobol.

  • Agile methodologies – Kanban / JIRA

  • Production support experience

Desired Qualifications

  • SQL, DB2, Oracle Toad, Shell script, Bit bucket, Autosys

  • Familiarity with midrange based systems, development (SDLC), Agile, DevOps, J2EE, JBOSS, Oracle, APIs

  • Familiarity with WIRE payments processing or other payments experience.

  • Knowledge of clearing houses (CHIPS, FEDWIRE) related compliance and mandates

  • Experience of working in Money Transfer System (MTS)

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 Requirements - Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Bank of America

Website: https://bankofamerica.com/

Headquarter Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 2007

Last Funding Type: Seed

Industries: Asset Management ⋅ Banking ⋅ Finance ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ FinTech