Job Description:
Overview (Bank overview, GBS India overview, Function Overview)*
Bank of America is one of the worlds leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.
We are committed to attracting and retaining top talent across the globe to ensure our continued success. Along with taking care of our customers, we want to be the best place for people to work and aim at creating a work environment where all employees have the opportunity to achieve their goals.
We are a part of the Global Business Services which delivers technology and operations capabilities to all Bank of America lines of business (LOB) and enterprise functions.
Our employees help our customers and clients at every stage of their financial lives, helping them connect to what matters most. This purpose defines and unites us. Every day, we are focused on delivering value, convenience, expertise and innovation for individuals, businesses and institutional investors we serve worldwide.
- BA Continuum is a nonbank subsidiary of Bank of America, part of Global Business Services in the bank.
Process Overview*
In Equity Linked Technology, we implement innovative software solutions to provide our clients with a seamless trading experience. Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of Equity Derivatives, ranging from fast-paced, high-volume vanilla options to complex structured notes and quantitative algorithmic indices. This in turn translates to challenges that involve providing low-latency pricing solutions and at the same time the solution should be simple enough to scale across a wide range of products and clients.
This is an extremely exciting time as the group is supporting significant business growth, while undergoing transformation into an Agile micro service-oriented infrastructure. It is an interactive and dynamic working environment, with the opportunity to interface directly with Front-Office users and enabling you to directly observe the impact of your deliveries. We are also in early stages of building out our platform so any candidate coming in will have the opportunity to contribute to the design and impact shape of our technology stack.
Job Description*
Candidates will be proficient in software design focused around a cross-language REST based n-tier architecture executed using agile methodologies (Scrum, Test Driven Development, unit/integration testing, pair programming, etc.). The successful candidate will be comfortable driving design and architecture, rationalizing business requirements and mentoring less experienced developers. There will be significant interaction with senior developers across other work streams as we integrate an increasingly complex product set.
Responsibilities*
- Develop a thorough understanding of our entire technology stack
- Design and develop new features within our services; create new containerized cloud native micro services to expand the overall framework
- Coordinate acceptance tests with QA team with priority on expanding automated test coverage where possible
- Plan work in an agile manner with other team members
- Contribute to future design and architecture
- Ensure sustained, reliable system operations and front office support; contribute to our devops tools to ensure proactive monitoring of system health both in terms of functionality and performance.
- Improve and develop our CI pipeline and deployment strategies
- Proactively contribute to system improvements and knowledge sharing with the team
Requirements*
Job Title*
Software Engineer III
Education*
B.E. / B. Tech. / M.S. / M. Tech. with good academic scores from top-tier colleges/universities
Certifications If Any
Experience Range*
10-15 years
Foundational skills*
- Strong OO developer with advanced Java / C++ / Python programming experience, and open to working with Python
- Hands-on experience on object oriented databases
- Demonstrable experience of having designed and developed complex server-side functionality
- Test automation, DevOps tools, Agile SDLC a keen interest in identifying and improving the software development process with a DevOps mindset
- Self-starter with a sense of responsibility - taking initiative and ownership for quality and speed
- Sound interpersonal skills, good communication/articulation, attention to detail
Desired Skills
- Understanding of capital markets and equities / derivatives trading
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
Work Timings*
11 AM to 8 PM
Job Location*
Mumbai / Hyderabad