Senior Engineer - Fixed Income Trading

Bank of America Bank of America · Banking · New York, NY

Senior Engineer role at Bank of America focused on building and leading a Risk technology team for Fixed Income trading. The role involves defining engineering approaches, delivering complex features, providing technical leadership, and end-to-end solution design for intraday risk management and cutting-edge capabilities for Front Office users.

What you'd actually do

  1. Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution
  2. Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)
  3. Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline
  4. Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews
  5. Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level

Skills

Required

  • Extensive experience in software engineering
  • Financial Services experience
  • Risk Systems knowledge
  • Trading Platforms knowledge
  • Pricing Engines knowledge
  • Fixed Income asset classes knowledge
  • front office workflows understanding
  • OO or Functional languages (Python, C#, Java, C++)
  • Agile environments experience
  • continuous integration experience
  • problem solving skills
  • analytical skills
  • team player
  • communication skills

Nice to have

  • Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Mathematics, or relevant analytical degree
  • Experience with large scale risk platforms such as SecDB, Athena, or Quartz

What the JD emphasized

  • strong track record in Financial Services (ideally front office technology)
  • Deep knowledge of Risk Systems, Trading Platforms or Pricing Engines within Rates or similar Fixed Income asset classes
  • Strong understanding of front office workflows