For Bhasin and his team, working with Bank of America is about improving lives, doing impactful work and innovating to better lives rather than for innovation’s sake. This summer, the company announced that the U.S. Patent Office had granted Bank of America 341 patents in the first six months of 2022 — the most ever issued to a company in a half-year period. That relentless pace of innovation, Bhasin noted, is a testament to the company’s tech-first approach, where technologists can develop an unparalleled breadth of skill: “You can have 10 careers here versus one at other companies.”

For Armbrister, working at Bank of America is about the ability to make a significant impact on people’s financial well-being. “We’re making things happen that affect half the households in the U.S.,” Armbrister said. “Very rarely do we in the tech space have that kind of opportunity.” Team members can expand their skill sets and work with a variety of advanced technologies on novel solutions to problems facing households. “There are pockets of work that let us explore technologies so cutting-edge and transformational that it’s a learning experience for everyone involved.”

Each day Bank of America moves a volume of data twice the size of the Library of Congress, and it does so without a hitch. “The user experiences that clients expect out of financial institutions has to be as seamless as social media or Amazon,” Boston said. Doing so requires top talent, the best technical minds working on some of the most advanced global information problems there are. Those minds are working in service of a noble mission — meeting clients’ financial needs from their first savings account through their first mortgage and throughout their lifetime.