Software Engineer II A - GBS IND - R

Job Description:

About Us

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Global Business Services

Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

Process Overview

Electronic Trading Technology put simply is a suite of applications primarily to enable trading of equities securities electronically. It includes applications for low latency trading, high frequency trading, sponsored access flow, algorithmic trading, applications for client and instrument reference data management and post trade reporting. In a complex trading environment, you need more than just a robust technology platform and intelligent algorithms. You need access to the insight and perspective only seasoned experts can provide. That’s why our platform connects you to top-tier strategies, unique liquidity, content, and knowledge. Traders are confronted with many challenges today, including fragmentation and scarce liquidity. BofA Securities offers a wide range of execution capabilities to help traders improve performance versus benchmarks, reduce market impact, and maximize efficiency on the desk.

Job Description

This experienced individual has a proven track record of developing quality software and trading strategies in a world class financial services organization. Quantitative Trading is one of the main driving forces in today's Equity Markets. Providing clients with superior order execution while minimizing their market impact and risk exposure, trading strategies and smart order routing is a rapidly expanding field. These platforms are driven by quantitative analytics, real time market data, historical tick data, market signal events, and statistical analysis. The equities Global Trading Technology organization is responsible for developing, supporting, and delivering these state-of-the-art trading solutions to end-users including internal trading desks as well as our external customers. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to be a part of agile, highly professional team delivering client-facing, high-availability low-latency trading algorithms and related technology. This person is responsible for developing and supporting the products and will report to the technical lead.

Responsibilities

• Developing solutions both tactical and strategic problems to meet business requirements
• Producing code that is appropriate for a low-latency java platform
• Understanding requirements and helping the team to deliver high quality solutions
• Providing estimates for tasks, including design, development, technical debt, and testing
• Participating in code reviews and architectural discussions
• Developing automated testing tools to exercise functionality, performance, and capacity of code
• Work closely with Quants on implementation of trading algorithms, models, and analytical signals.
• Work with Product and Sales teams on client requests and algo customizations.
• Develop innovative solutions in a strategic, pragmatic way.
• Succeed in a collaborative development environment.
• Be curious and inquisitive around industry trends and strive for continuous improvement.
  
  

Requirements

• Education: B.E./B.Tech/M.S./M.Tech
• Certifications if any: NA
• Experience Range:8-14 Yrs
  
  

Foundation Skills

• software development experience using Java
• Experience in a front office trading environment
• Experience with asynchronous and event-driven programming, developing real-time applications, building distributed systems
• Knowledge of networks and topologies
• Firm grounding of common algorithms
• Familiar working with LINUX environments
• Strong writing and verbal communication skills
• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals including data structures, design patterns and object-orientated programming
• Proficiency in core Java with demonstrable success in developing multi-threaded applications
• Proven ability to develop clean, testable code
• Understanding of relational database concepts and knowledge in SQL
• Experience with Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Gradle and CI/CD tools, e.g. TeamCity and Jenkins
• Experience with Linux/Unix
  
  

Desired Skills

• Ability to work with a diverse set of groups including technology teams, traders, quants, operations, and other business functions
• Ability to work with global team of developer and communicate /collaborate effectively
• Previous exposure to low latency programming and multi-threaded environments.
• Previous exposure to Finance Protocols like FIX, OUCH
  
  

Work Timings:

• 11:00 AM-8:00 PM
  
  

Job Location*

• Mumbai /Hyderabad