Software Engineer II at Bank of America

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!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Role Description:

The qualified applicant will become part of Quartz Core Platform's Grid team that building and re-architecting a distributed compute platform that is geographically spread out and running over a billion of tasks for thousands of applications a day.

We are looking for someone who has extensive experience in building grid compute and/or container management systems at large scale across multiple geographic regions.

Quartz has for over a decade revolutionized the way Global Markets does business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Quartz has been the primary platform for pricing trades, managing positions, and computing risk exposure. Thousands of developers are using the highly agile platform to deliver applications to tens of thousands of end users. As a part of the Quartz team, you will contribute to the technology that will re define the future of our business.

To own and independently implement one part of a complex project, while collaborating effectively with the owners of the other parts.

Responsibilities:

The Quartz Platform team is now starting a core refresh of the platform to modernize with capabilities required to meet our user’s future needs. We are looking to add an experienced software engineers with solid CS knowledge and proof of delivery on at least one large project in a relevant area (in a PhD or prior job). This person needs to be able to own and independently implement one part of a complex project, while collaborating effectively with the owners of the other parts.

What we are looking for:

• C++

• Python

• Linux SA Experience

• Process distribution and management

• OCI Images/Containers

• Deep experience with at least a few of the following: podman, docker, kubernetes, etc. Not just using but developing core features for and/or extending

Skills that will help:

• Networking and serialization protocols

• Security & PKI

• Linux Kernal Internals

• Data marshaling/optimizations

• DevOps automation