Java Developer/Software Engineer III

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.

Position Summary:

The Fraud Technology team is looking for an experienced, hands-on Java Developer to design, build, and support enterprise-grade applications while guiding the team through the full software development lifecycle. Your work directly helps stop fraud across Credit, Debit, ATM, Deposit and Check transactions. You bring strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud technologies, and Agile delivery, along with a track record of sound design, mentoring, and delivery leadership. If you love staying close to the code, this role is for you: you will stay actively involved in application architecture, solution design, coding, debugging, code reviews, and production troubleshooting.

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)
• •Build with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, OpenShift, MongoDB, CockroachDB, Cassandra, and cloud platforms, alongside AI/machine learning models and graph databases
• •Shape architecture and technical direction, and partner directly with Fraud Strategies and Product Owners
• •Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance microservices solutions

Required Qualifications:

• •4+ years of Java development experience, including working with onshore and offshore team members
• •Hands-on Java/Spring experience, with the ability to contribute directly to complex development and troubleshooting while leading the team
• •Strong hands-on Java development experience (Java 17+ preferred)
• •Spring and Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices architecture
• •Strong SQL queries again RDBMS like Oracle, CockroachDB
• •Kafka, MQ, or other messaging platforms
• •Maven or Gradle and Git-based development
• •JUnit 5, Mockito, and automated unit/integration testing practices
• •Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• •Secure coding, code quality/static analysis, and vulnerability remediation experience
• •Strong problem-solving, debugging, performance-troubleshooting, and production-support skills
• •Experience adopting GitHub Copilot and using AI-assisted development effectively while maintaining coding, testing, security, and engineering standards

Desired Qualifications:

• •Hands-on experience with UI technologies such as JavaScript, Angular, and React
• •Application security standards such as mTLS, OAuth2, JWT, SSO, and Spring Security
• •Monitoring/observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or Interscope
• •SonarQube or similar code-quality tools

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NJ - Pennington - 1500 American Blvd - Hopewell Bldg 5 (NJ2150)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$102,900.00 - $179,900.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.