Job Description:

Job Title: Software Engineer III

Corp Title: VP

Location: Bromley

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, recognizing 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. Join us!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll  find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

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

• Software engineering experience in front office eTrading UI development.

• Own the technical direction and delivery of high-performance, low-latency eTrading UI application across a globally distributed user base spanning multiple trading desks and regions

• Lead, mentor and functionally manage a team of UI development team on the ground as well as in offshore location

• Manage the development stream end-to-end: roadmap sequencing, sprint planning, dependency management with server side teams.

• Architect and govern the UI layer – component, design, threading model, dispatcher, patterns and the data binding all of which much sustain low-latency high throughput data without UI performance degradation.

• Work with technology partners and business groups in the region and globally to deliver high quality UI products in a fast-paced environment.

• Liaise with end-users to understand their requirements.

• Work with the management and horizontal teams to advance the strategic UI roadmap.

• Champion excellent development practices including pairing, code reviews, unit testing and regression testing.

Required Qualifications

• Science / Engineering Degree

• C# and WPF – expert level command of full WPF stack; deep understanding of dispatcher, dependency properties, virtualization and performance characteristics of data bound UIs under high-frequency update conditions.

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and ability to coordinate different tasks and work with different stakeholder groups and demonstrate proactive-ness and high motivation.

• Ability to organize multiple competing tasks and priorities with a rapidly changing environment.

• Development and technical leadership experience in complex UI application development with a background in multi-threaded implementation and low-latency messaging

• Experience with Multi-threading, low latency, high performance components & applications (including GC tuning)

• Experience with Linux, UNIX, Solaris and Agile methodologies.

• Experience with versioning tools such as GIT, transport layer technology such as TCP/web socket, Refinitiv, Tibco Rendezvous

• Experience with ng debugging and troubleshooting skills on Linux/Windows using profiling tools. 

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working in Fixed Income eTrading technology domain specializing in the UI layer – pricing grids, RFQ blotters, tickets

• People leadership – line and functional management of engineering at varying levels; experience in giving feedback, calibrating performance

• UI architecture evolution – experience leading a migration or modernization of a large legacy WPF code base – componentization, decoupling from legacy data layers, or phase introduction of modern patterns – without disrupting a live trading application.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:
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• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees’ health and wellbeing – it’s what makes us a Great Place to Work.

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.

• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.

• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
  Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.