Software Engineer II - Java/J2EE

Posted 2 Days Ago
2 Locations
In-Office
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Mobile • Payments • Financial Services • Data Privacy
The Role
Develops full-stack software for Bank of America’s AI and search platforms. Responsibilities include designing, coding, unit and integration testing, code reviews, CI/CD, requirements refinement, performance analysis, troubleshooting, and proof-of-concept development. The role requires Java/J2EE experience and collaboration within an agile team, with preferred experience in Spring MVC, REST services, JVM tuning, NoSQL databases, caching, search engines, NLP, and machine learning.
Summary Generated by Built In

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, 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!

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, coding solutions, unit testing, and ensuring the solution can be integrated successfully into the overall application/system with clear, robust, and well-tested interfaces. Job expectations include an awareness of development and testing practices in the industry.

Position Summary:

This is a Full stack Software Development Engineer role in Bank of America Erica, Chat and Voice Technology team.. The Team builds next generation AI and Search platforms for the bank enabling banking assistants and search across multiple platforms. This position requires candidate to be well versed with client side and server side technologies. Candidate must possess passion for producing high quality software, ready to jump in and solve complex problems and perform code reviews.  Candidate is expected to write unit and integration test and should be familiar to perform hybrid engineering tasks within the agile team.

Responsibilities:

  • Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
  • Utilizes multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements
  • Performs Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) activities
  • Contributes to story refinement and definition of requirements
  • Participates in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle
  • Contributes to existing test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause
  • Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of hands on software development experience using Java / J2EE technologies
  • Good interpersonal communication skills for tech and business conversations
  • Good analytical skills to break down requirements, solve complex problems 

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience working on high volume applications
  • Experience in server side frameworks like Spring MVC
  • Experience building restful web services
  • Experience in performance tuning with good understanding of JVM internals
  • Experience with NoSQL databases like Cassandra
  • Experience in distributed caching frameworks like hazelcast, ignite, redis
  • Experience in modern JVM languages like groovy, scala
  • Experience with open source search engines like SOLR, elasticsearch
  • Experience working with NLP and Machine learning
  • Prior open source contributions
  • Proven task management and leadership skills
  • Experience working in agile teams

Skills:

  • Application Development
  • Automation
  • Collaboration
  • DevOps Practices
  • Solution Design
  • Agile Practices
  • Architecture
  • Result Orientation
  • Solution Delivery Process
  • User Experience Design
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Data Management
  • Risk Management
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Test Engineering

Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience using Java/J2EE technologies
  • Good interpersonal communication skills for technical and business conversations
  • Good analytical skills to break down requirements and solve complex problems
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Experience working on high-volume applications
  • Experience with server-side frameworks such as Spring MVC
  • Experience building RESTful web services
  • Experience with performance tuning and JVM internals
  • Experience with NoSQL databases such as Cassandra
  • Experience with distributed caching frameworks such as Hazelcast, Ignite, or Redis
  • Experience with modern JVM languages such as Groovy or Scala
  • Experience with open-source search engines such as Solr or Elasticsearch
  • Experience with NLP and machine learning
  • Prior open-source contributions
  • Task management and leadership skills
  • Experience working in agile teams

Bank of America Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Bank of America and has not been reviewed or approved by Bank of America.

  • Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, virtual care via Teladoc, wellness programs, and specialized support for cancer and menopause. Wellness credits and an always‑on EAP with in‑person sessions add to the depth of care.
  • Parental & Family Support — New parents can access up to 26 weeks of leave, including 16 weeks fully paid for eligible teammates, alongside back‑up child and adult care. Family‑building resources and reimbursements (e.g., fertility, adoption, surrogacy) and a dedicated Life Event Services team extend support across life stages.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility — Broad‑based equity through the Sharing Success program, including $1B in stock to nearly all non‑executive employees in January 2026, is intended to foster an ownership mindset. Stock awards (including RSUs) are a recurring component that aligns employees’ interests with shareholders.

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The Company
HQ: Charlotte, NC
208,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1784

What We Do

We make financial lives better for our clients and our communities through the power of every connection. Our employees are at the heart of this purpose, and are key to driving responsible growth. Every day, across the globe, our employees bring a commitment to our purpose and to driving responsible growth by living our values: deliver together, act responsibly, realize the power of our people and trust the team. A key aspect of driving responsible growth is doing so in a sustainable manner, a critical pillar of which is being a great place to work for our teammates.

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