Senior Engineer – FICC Credit Technology

Bank of America

Lead engineer building low-latency credit eTrading systems for Bank of America. Designing shared FICC services, market connectivity, price distribution, and RFQ technology.

Posted 8/4/2026full-timeJersey City • New Jersey, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $122,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading the design and implementation of eTrading solutions, with a strong focus on market connectivity and price distribution. Proficient in Java/Spring and CI/CD practices, while effectively managing and developing engineering talent within the eTrading domain.

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Lead Software EngineerJava/Spring DevelopmentETrading SolutionsCI/CD ToolchainsProduction Support

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Hard Skills

JavaSpringFIX Trading SolutionsSQLNoSQLGraphQLGRPCReactiveXJDK CI/CDDebugging

Soft Skills

Technical Thought LeadershipStakeholder EngagementTeam Supervision

Tools & Technologies

MavenGradleJenkinsDockerKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaKafkaRabbitMQOpenShift

Industry Keywords

ETradingMarket ConnectivityPrice DistributionRFQ EnginesCredit WorkflowsRates Workflows

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AkkaCassandraClojureDockerGradleGrafanaGraphiteGraphQLGRPCHBaseJavaJenkinsKafkaKotlinKubernetesLinuxMavenMicroservicesMongoDBNoSQLOpenShiftPrometheusRabbitMQRustScalaSplunkSpringSQLUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and lead the engineering approach for complex features delivering significant business outcomes
Deliver complex features and technology while enabling development efficiencies
Provide technical thought leadership based on multiple software implementations
Design and deliver end-to-end solutions
Support the existing Credit eTrading technology stack
Lead the buildout of shared FICC eTrading services
Lead design discussions and build eTrading software for market connectivity, price distribution, and RFQ engines
Ensure design and engineering approaches align with the larger portfolio solution
Define the technology tool stack and evaluate testing tools, frameworks, and practices
Enable teams and applications with CI/CD capabilities
Guide teams on design and high-performance coding best practices
Deliver complex features and automation for one or multiple teams at program level
Conduct research, prototyping, and exploration of new toolsets and components
Establish high-level solution needs with stakeholders and technical requirements with architects
Work with trading desks, strategists, and quants on production support, requirements gathering, and solution design
Supervise and grow eTrading engineering talent

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor Degree or equivalent professional experience
Experience as a Lead software engineer building eTrading solutions for market connectivity, price distribution, or RFQ engines
Experience building D2D, D2C, and bilateral eTrading connectivity
High proficiency in Java/Spring and expertise developing FIX trading solutions
Experience supporting production trading systems at L3 level and gathering requirements/designing new solutions with trading desks, strategists, and quants
Experience supervising and growing eTrading engineering talent
In-depth knowledge of Credit or Rates eTrading workflows and market structure
Proficiency debugging and profiling JDK-based languages, including Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Clojure
Advanced experience with JDK CI/CD and build toolchains, including Maven, Gradle, SBT, and Jenkins
Experience with GraphQL and gRPC modern RPC microservices
Proficiency developing in Unix/Linux environments, including shell basics and process/network diagnostics
Exposure to monitoring, metrics, and tracing tools such as ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite, OpenTSDB, OpenTrace, and Jaeger
Exposure to message-oriented architecture technologies such as ZeroMQ, JMS, AMPS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Google Pub/Sub
Exposure to process/container orchestration technologies such as Mesos, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker
High proficiency with SQL and NoSQL data stores, including MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, and HBase
Experience with reactive streams and observables, including ReactiveX, Akka Streams, Monix, or Spring Reactor
Desired: understanding of machine architecture and C++ or Rust
Desired: experience with CQRS architecture
Desired: experience with Scala functional or concurrency libraries such as ZIO

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being
Paid time off
Resources and support to employees
Opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact
Annual discretionary incentive plan eligibility
Benefits eligibility
Inclusive workplace
Flexibility based on role-specific considerations