Software Engineer lll - Payment Modernization

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!

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.

Responsibilities:

• 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)

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including building and supporting mission-critical systems.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot building microservices for mission-critical, low-latency systems.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience (Feature Lead / Tech Lead / Senior Engineer) leading delivery for a small to mid-sized engineering team.
• Experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka (topic design, consumer groups, streaming patterns, integration with back-end services).
• Solid experience with Oracle (or similar RDBMS) including schema design for payments, performance tuning, and transactional integrity.
• Knowledge of wire processing workflows including initiation, compliance screening, enrichment, routing, settlement, exception handling, and investigations.
• Experience designing and deploying services using containers (Docker) and Kubernetes, including configuration, scaling, and rollout strategies, preferably on a cloud or private-cloud platform.
• Ability to ensure solutions meet regulatory and compliance requirements (OFAC, AML, sanctions, risk controls).
• Expertise applying architectural patterns, integration design, event-driven or microservices patterns, and modern engineering frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience developing automated test suites, ensuring coverage across MT/MX message validation, schema compliance, routing logic, performance, and resiliency.
• Experience setting up and maturing CI/CD pipelines with automated quality gates, schema validations, regression packs, and safe deployment controls for mission-critical systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across distributed systems, including message parsing failures, routing defects, latency issues, or integration errors.
• Excellent mentoring, communication, and collaboration skills to support engineering teams and influence technical direction across architecture, product, operations, and compliance partners.

• Familiarity with Federal Reserve Operating Circular 8, CHIPS Operating Rules, and SWIFT Standards related to wire message structures and processing requirements.
• 3+ years working in high-value payments, preferably in US Wires (Fedwire, CHIPS) and/or SWIFT cross-border payments.
• Experience supporting or engineering for high-value, low-latency payment systems, including performance tuning, message parsing optimization, and resiliency patterns.
• Exposure to fraud detection, sanctions screening engines, and other risk systems integrated into wire processing flows.
• Knowledge of end-to-end wire operational workflows including exceptions, repairs, adjustments, investigations, and settlement cycles.
• Experience implementing or integrating monitoring/observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics, Dynatrace) for wire transaction tracing and operational insights.
• Experience in cloud modernization or microservices transformation for wire or other regulated financial systems.
• Experience with UI frameworks (e.g., Angular) and/or Node.js for building operational tools, dashboards, or auxiliary services around wire platforms.
• Ability to collaborate with Compliance, Risk, Operations, and business SMEs to ensure solutions meet regulatory, operational, and audit requirements.