Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Microservices

Software Engineer III - GBS IND

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 excellenceand 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

In Equity Linked Technology, we implement innovative software solutions to provide our clients with a seamless trading experience.  Our engineers solve some of the most complex technical problems in the world of Equity Derivatives, ranging from fast-paced, high-volume vanilla options to complex structured notes and quantitative algorithmic indices. This in turn translates to challenges that involve providing low-latency pricing solutions and at the same time the solution should be simple enough to scale across a wide range of products and clients.

This is an extremely exciting time as the group is supporting significant business growth, while undergoing transformation into an Agile micro service-oriented infrastructure.  It is an interactive and dynamic working environment, with the opportunity to interface directly with Front-Office users and enabling you to directly observe the impact of your deliveries. We are also in early stages of building out our platform so any candidate coming in will have the opportunity to contribute to the design and impact shape of our technology stack.

Job Description

We need a software developer who will be proficient in designing service-oriented and microservice-based architectures, implemented using agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban, Test Driven Development, unit and integration testing, etc.)

Comfortable contributing to system design and architecture, translating business requirements into clean, maintainable software, and taking ownership of delivery quality. There will be significant collaboration with senior engineers across work streams as we integrate an increasingly complex, distributed product set.

Responsibilities

• Develop a thorough understanding of our backend platforms, services, and domain model
• Design and develop new features within long-lived backend services; build containerized, cloud-native microservices that form part of an enterprise platform
• Work closely with QA while prioritizing automated unit and integration test coverage as a first-class engineering responsibility
• Plan and deliver work in an agile manner with a strong focus on engineering quality and predictability
• Contribute to ongoing system design, architectural evolution, and reduction of technical debt
• Ensure sustained, reliable operation of production systems; contribute to DevOps practices including monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness of services
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and development workflows
• Proactively contribute to platform improvements, engineering best practices, and knowledge sharing within the team

Requirements

Education: Bachelors/Masters degree in Information technology/Computer Sciences

Certifications if any: NA

Experience Range: 4-12 years

Foundational skills:

• Strong object-oriented software engineer with experience in Java, C++, Python, or similar OO languages; willingness to work in Python for production systems is essential.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing server-side systems with well-structured domain models and persistence layers
• Demonstrable experience designing and developing complex, production-grade backend services
• Strong experience with test automation (unit and integration), CI/CD pipelines, and Agile SDLC, with a mindset toward building reliable, maintainable systems
• Self-starter with strong ownership mindset, balancing delivery speed with long-term code quality and maintainability
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to collaborate effectively in a multi-team environment

Desired skills :

• Understanding of capital markets, particularly equities and/or derivatives, is a plus but not mandatory
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Experience using GitHub Copilot effectively (Chat/Edits/Agents), including choosing appropriate models (e.g., Claude vs Codex) for debugging, refactoring, and test generation, and validating outputs through tests and code review.

Work Timings: 11:00am – 8:00pm

Job Location: Mumbai/Chennai

Experience Level

Senior Level