Senior Engineer - FICC Credit Technology
Bank of America, New York, NY, United States
Overview
The Lead Software Engineer role sits within the FICC Electronic Trading technology team, focused on Systematic Credit eTrading. The position leads engineering for complex features, defines solution design, and delivers end‑to‑end solutions that support eTrading across various global markets.
Responsibilities
Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution.
Defines the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluates and adapts new testing tools, frameworks, and practices for team(s).
Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders concerning efficient functioning of the CI/CD pipeline.
Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance – e.g., pairing, code reviews.
Provides end‑to‑end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams at the program level.
Conducts research, design prototyping, and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features.
Works with stakeholders to establish high‑level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements.
Required Qualifications
Experience as a Lead software engineer building eTrading solutions – software used in market connectivity, price distribution, or RFQ engines.
Must understand and have experience building out D2D, D2C, and bilateral eTrading connectivity.
Highly proficient in Java/Spring with expertise in developing FIX trading solutions.
Experience working with trading desks, strategists, and quants for L3 support on production trading systems as well as requirements gathering and solution design for new builds.
Experience supervising and growing eTrading engineering talent.
In‑depth knowledge of Credit or Rates eTrading workflows and market structure.
Proficiency in debugging/profiling JDK‑based languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin/Clojure).
Advanced work with JDK CI/CD and build toolchains including Maven, Gradle, SBT, and Jenkins.
Experience with modern RPC microservices, specifically GraphQL and gRPC.
Proficiency in developing for Unix/Linux‑based environments including shell basics as well as process and network diagnostics.
Exposure to monitoring, metrics, and tracing tooling – ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, Jaeger.
Exposure to message‑oriented architecture – ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub.
Exposure to process/container orchestration technologies – Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker.
High proficiency in data architecture in both SQL and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase.
Experience with reactive streams implementations and observables – ReactiveX (RXJava, RXJS, etc.), Akka Streams, Monix, Spring Reactor.
Desired Qualifications
Understanding of machine architecture and natively compiled languages such as C++ and Rust.
Experience with CQRS architecture.
Experience with Scala functional and/or concurrency libraries such as ZIO, Cats.
Skills
Automation
Influence
Result Orientation
Stakeholder Management
Technical Strategy Development
Application Development
Architecture
Business Acumen
Risk Management
Solution Design
Agile Practices
Analytical Thinking
Collaboration
Data Management
Solution Delivery Process
Minimum Education Requirements
Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience
Shift
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week
40
Pay Transparency details
US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St
US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park
Pay range
$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education, and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group, and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry‑leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources, and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.
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The Lead Software Engineer role sits within the FICC Electronic Trading technology team, focused on Systematic Credit eTrading. The position leads engineering for complex features, defines solution design, and delivers end‑to‑end solutions that support eTrading across various global markets.
Responsibilities
Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution.
Defines the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluates and adapts new testing tools, frameworks, and practices for team(s).
Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders concerning efficient functioning of the CI/CD pipeline.
Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance – e.g., pairing, code reviews.
Provides end‑to‑end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams at the program level.
Conducts research, design prototyping, and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features.
Works with stakeholders to establish high‑level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements.
Required Qualifications
Experience as a Lead software engineer building eTrading solutions – software used in market connectivity, price distribution, or RFQ engines.
Must understand and have experience building out D2D, D2C, and bilateral eTrading connectivity.
Highly proficient in Java/Spring with expertise in developing FIX trading solutions.
Experience working with trading desks, strategists, and quants for L3 support on production trading systems as well as requirements gathering and solution design for new builds.
Experience supervising and growing eTrading engineering talent.
In‑depth knowledge of Credit or Rates eTrading workflows and market structure.
Proficiency in debugging/profiling JDK‑based languages (Java/Scala/Kotlin/Clojure).
Advanced work with JDK CI/CD and build toolchains including Maven, Gradle, SBT, and Jenkins.
Experience with modern RPC microservices, specifically GraphQL and gRPC.
Proficiency in developing for Unix/Linux‑based environments including shell basics as well as process and network diagnostics.
Exposure to monitoring, metrics, and tracing tooling – ELK stack, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, Jaeger.
Exposure to message‑oriented architecture – ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub.
Exposure to process/container orchestration technologies – Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker.
High proficiency in data architecture in both SQL and NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase.
Experience with reactive streams implementations and observables – ReactiveX (RXJava, RXJS, etc.), Akka Streams, Monix, Spring Reactor.
Desired Qualifications
Understanding of machine architecture and natively compiled languages such as C++ and Rust.
Experience with CQRS architecture.
Experience with Scala functional and/or concurrency libraries such as ZIO, Cats.
Skills
Automation
Influence
Result Orientation
Stakeholder Management
Technical Strategy Development
Application Development
Architecture
Business Acumen
Risk Management
Solution Design
Agile Practices
Analytical Thinking
Collaboration
Data Management
Solution Delivery Process
Minimum Education Requirements
Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience
Shift
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week
40
Pay Transparency details
US - NJ - Jersey City - 101 Hudson St
US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park
Pay range
$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education, and skill set.
Discretionary incentive eligible
This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group, and the overall success of the Company.
Benefits
This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry‑leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources, and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.
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