Software Engineer III - Python

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, recognising 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.

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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.

The FX Post Trade Trade Capture & Lifecycle Management team is responsible for building and supporting strategic post-trade processing platforms for Foreign Exchange products across Bank of America. The team develops highly scalable, low-latency, and resilient solutions that provide trade capture, lifecycle management, workflow orchestration, risk management, and straight-through processing (STP) capabilities. The role involves designing and developing Python-based applications and services that support global FX trading operations, regulatory reporting, and operational risk reduction while driving the modernization of legacy platforms.

• 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)
• Design, develop, test, and support Python-based applications and microservices within the FX Post Trade platform.
• Build and maintain highly available, low-latency, and high-volume trade processing systems.
• Implement trade capture, booking, validation, workflow orchestration, and lifecycle management solutions for FX products.
• Participate in the modernization and migration of legacy trade processing platforms to strategic architectures.
• Develop APIs, messaging, and event-driven integration solutions across trading, risk, operations, and regulatory systems.
• Analyze and resolve production issues while ensuring platform stability and performance.
• Collaborate with business analysts, developers, QA engineers,…