Job Description
Software Engineer III – VP – Bromley
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. Bank of America is committed to an in‑office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development.
Location Overview
Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London’s greenest boroughs. Here you’ll find plenty of easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.
Job Description
This role is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non‑functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability and ease of integration and testing built‑in from the outset. The role requires strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.
Responsibilities
- Software engineering experience in front office eTrading UI development.
- Own the technical direction and delivery of high‑performance, low‑latency eTrading UI application across a globally distributed user base spanning multiple trading desks and regions.
- Lead, mentor and functionally manage a UI development team on the ground as well as offshore.
- Manage the development stream end‑to‑end: roadmap sequencing, sprint planning, dependency management with server‑side teams.
- Architect and govern the UI layer – component, design, threading model, dispatcher, patterns and data binding required to sustain low‑latency, high‑throughput data without UI performance degradation.
- Work with technology partners and business groups in the region and globally to deliver high‑quality UI products in a fast‑paced environment.
- Liaise with end‑users to understand their requirements.
- Work with management and horizontal teams to advance the strategic UI roadmap.
- Champion excellent development practices including pairing, code reviews, unit testing and regression testing.
Required Qualifications
- Science or Engineering degree.
- C# and WPF – expert level command of the full WPF stack; deep understanding of dispatcher, dependency properties, virtualization and performance characteristics of data‑bound UIs under high‑frequency update conditions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to coordinate different tasks and work with different stakeholder groups with proactive‑ness and high motivation.
- Ability to organize multiple competing tasks and priorities in a rapidly changing environment.
- Development and technical leadership experience in complex UI application development with a background in multi‑threaded implementation and low‑latency messaging.
- Experience with multi‑threading, low latency, high‑performance components and applications (including GC tuning).
- Experience with Linux, UNIX, Solaris and Agile methodologies.
- Experience with versioning tools such as GIT; transport layer technology such as TCP/web socket; Refinitiv, Tibco Rendezvous.
- Experience with debugging and troubleshooting skills on Linux/Windows using profiling tools.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working in Fixed Income eTrading technology domain specializing in the UI layer – pricing grids, RFQ blotters, tickets.
- People leadership – line and functional management of engineering at varying levels; experience in giving feedback and calibrating performance.
- UI architecture evolution – experience leading a migration or modernization of a large legacy WPF code base, componentisation, decoupling from legacy data layers, or phased introduction of modern patterns without disrupting a live trading application.
Benefits of working at Bank of America
- Private healthcare for you and your family and an annual health screen.
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover.
- 26‑weeks paid maternity leave, 16‑weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements including backup childcare and adult care.
- Flexible benefits such as a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle‑to‑work and other options.
- Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services.
- Charity donation match programme.
- Awards and opportunities to volunteer and develop skills in community initiatives.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an equal‑opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio‑economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.
We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.
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