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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

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.

• The Developer will be responsible for designing, architecting, and guiding the development of backend platforms and API services that power enterprise automation solutions. This role requires deep expertise in Python, distributed architectures, API frameworks, and automation-driven backend systems. As a key technical leader, the Python Architect will work closely with business stakeholders, automation teams, UI engineers, and DevOps groups to ensure seamless end to end solution delivery from design through production rollout.

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)
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Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of professional Python development with strong advanced object oriented design skills.
• 8+ years architecting and developing backend APIs/services using Flask, Gunicorn, and production-grade Python frameworks.
• 8+ years of experience with Python environment management, virtual environments, dependency handling, and PYPI package maintenance.
• 8+ years working with Python development tools such as Jupyter, Eclipse, Spyder, or equivalent.
• 8–10+ years of hands-on work in Linux environments.
• 8+ years of experience with version control (Git/SVN) and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Ansible) for automated deployments.
• Strong proficiency in bash scripting for automation and system orchestration.
• Advanced experience with data preparation, Python data structures, and Pandas.
• 8+ years of working with relational and NoSQL databases, including strong SQL fundamentals and ORM experience with SQLAlchemy.
• Significant experience designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale REST/SOAP web services.

Desired Qualifications:

• Communication — Speaks clearly and concisely, tailoring details to engineers, security partners, and business stakeholders.
• Scheduling / Delivery Management — Understands dependencies, critical path deliverables, and manages release timelines to reduce delivery risk.
• Risk Management — Identifies reliability/security risks early; balances speed with controls, escalates appropriately, and proposes mitigations.
• Critical Thinking — Diagnoses complex delivery issues across pipelines, infrastructure, and runtime systems using evidence and structured analysis.
• Task Management — Breaks work into actionable deliverables, aligns tasks to the right owners, and drives completion across teams.
• Strong familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Jira), and experience tracking deliverables across multiple streams.
• Proven track record supporting multiple concurrent projects across varying stages of the SDLC, from initial buildout to production operations.

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Python
• Design Thinking
• Jira

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 

40