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, 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.

This is a Full stack Software Engineer role in Bank of America’s Erica, Chat, and Voice Technology organization in Plano, TX. 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.

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

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

Required Skills

• Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
• 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
• Good leadership skills to meet delivery timelines effectively while focusing on code quality.

Desired Skills

• 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
• Prior open source contributions
• Proven task management skills
• Experience working in agile teams

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor Degree or equivalent working experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40