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Software Engineer - Java

Bank of America
Newark, DE Full Time
POSTED ON 5/13/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/11/2026
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, 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.

Looking for a hands‑on Software Engineer with a strong Java/Spring Boot background who can operate as a systems engineer across distributed platforms and integration layers. You’ll design, build, and operate middleware solutions (e.g., WebMethods, Mule, Spring Boot microservices, API gateways), automate CI/CD with Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, JFrog Artifactory, and scale services on Kubernetes/OpenShift. You’re fluent in Linux shell scripting, comfortable with Python (nice to have), and well‑versed in Agile with hands‑on Jira. Experience with Angular or React is a plus.

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)

Required Qualifications:

  • 8–12 years of software/ systems engineering experience, including 5 years hands‑on with Java and Spring Boot (microservices).
  • Strong experience with middleware/integration tools: webMethods, Mule, and API gateway patterns.
  • Proficiency with Linux, shell scripting, Git (Bitbucket), Jenkins, Maven, Ansible, and JFrog Artifactory.
  • Practical experience with containers and Kubernetes or OpenShift in production.
  • Solid grasp of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS), observability (logs/metrics/traces), and performance tuning.
  • Proven Agile practitioner; daily user of Jira; strong communication and documentation skills.

Roles & Responsibilities

Systems Engineering & Architecture

  • Design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient platforms for Java/Spring Boot microservices and middleware integrations.
  • Lead system sizing, capacity planning, observability (metrics, logs, traces), and performance tuning for high‑throughput workloads.
  • Define and enforce non‑functional requirements (security, reliability, performance, DR/BCP, compliance).

Middleware & Integration

  • Build and maintain integrations using webMethods, Mule, and API gateways (e.g., Apigee/Kong/WSO2/Layer7 — as applicable).
  • Modernize and decompose legacy integration patterns to RESTful and event‑driven architectures (Kafka/AMQP where relevant).
  • Establish API standards (versioning, error contracts, security, rate limits) and governance.

Backend Engineering (Java/Spring Boot)

  • Develop high‑quality, testable Spring Boot services (data access, caching, resilience, security).
  • Implement automated tests (unit/integration/contract) and quality gates.
  • Optimize JVM performance, GC tuning, and troubleshoot memory/latency issues.

Automation, CI/CD & DevOps

  • Own the end‑to‑end build and release pipeline: Bitbucket (Git), Jenkins, Maven, JFrog Artifactory, Ansible.
  • Create reusable pipelines, shared libraries, and deployment templates with robust promotion strategies.
  • Implement artifact versioning, SBOMs, and supply‑chain controls; enforce policy via quality gates.

Containers & Platform

  • Containerize services with Docker; deploy and run on Kubernetes/OpenShift using best practices (probes, HPA, ConfigMaps/Secrets, RBAC).
  • Define Helm/Kustomize manifests; manage namespaces, network policies, and ingress/ingress‑gateway configuration.
  • Drive cost efficiency and right‑sizing; enable autoscaling and progressive delivery (blue/green, canary).

Desired Qualifications:

  • Python for automation/tooling.
  • Front‑end familiarity with Angular or React (for full‑stack collaboration or admin consoles).
  • Event streaming (Kafka), messaging (RabbitMQ), and CDC/ETL experience.
  • Experience with API security (OAuth2/OIDC), service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), and policy engines (OPA/Gatekeeper).
  • Exposure to cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), IaC (Terraform), and GitOps (Argo CD/Flux).
  • WebMethods/Mule certifications; Kubernetes/CKA/CKAD; Red Hat OpenShift certs.

Skills:

  • Application Development
  • Automation
  • Influence
  • Solution Design
  • Technical Strategy Development
  • Architecture
  • Business Acumen
  • DevOps Practices
  • Result Orientation
  • Solution Delivery Process
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Data Management
  • Risk Management
  • Test Engineering

Minimum Education Requirement: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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