Software Engineer lll - Wire Platform

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in‑office culture with specific requirements for office‑based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role‑specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

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 that 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.

• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Design, develop, and modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained.
• Mentor other software engineers and coach the team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI‑CD) practices and automating the tool stack.
• Execute story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimate work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Automate manual release activities.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites (integration, regression, performance).

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically proficient Software Engineer to join our team in building a next‑generation wire payment processing platform. This role blends leadership, architecture, and hands‑on development responsibilities, requiring deep expertise in modern technologies and payment systems.

The Software Engineer will guide cross‑functional teams in delivering high‑impact features, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical standards, and agile delivery practices. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Java, Node.js, Oracle, Kafka, Rabbit

MQ, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

This role demands a strong understanding of payment systems including Wire, ACH, and RTP, and the ability to lead teams through complex technical challenges.

• Five to seven years of experience tackling complex challenges in distributed data systems using Java (Enterprise Edition), Oracle SQL, and Python.
• Five to seven years of experience using Java/J2EE technologies to develop scalable enterprise‑grade applications, libraries, and frameworks.
• Five to seven years designing and developing solution architecture to scale backend systems with Spring framework, Spring MVC, and RESTful APIs.
• Hands‑on experience with messaging systems like Kafka and Rabbit
  
  MQ.
• Experience with cloud‑native development and deployment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Five years utilizing Dev Ops technologies for CI/CD including Ansible, Jenkins, JFrog, and Git.
• Designed and implemented database development on Oracle Exadata.
• Proven experience in leading and mentoring a team of engineers.
• Strong understanding of software development, testing, deployment, and support using agile methodologies.
• Expert‑level proficiency in Java Enterprise Edition and related frameworks (e.g., Spring, Hibernate) and advanced SQL.
• Excellent written and verbal…