Description

Job Description:

Bromley - UK

Location: EMEA

Grade: H5

Job Title: Developer Derivatives Trading Platforms

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Bromley

Company Overview:

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!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London's greenest boroughs. Here you'll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

The Team:

• Established Global Team with presence in Singapore, Tokyo, India, USA.
• Small local teams, where a team members contribution can make a real difference.
• Strategic location in UK, where communicating with both AsPac and USA teams is possible.
• Interface with client onboarding and algorithmic trading teams.
• Face off to the business for client requirements implementation.

Role Description:

The Futures and Options technology team is looking for a motivated candidate to join our team from the Bromley/London office. The F&O electronic trading group is a global team that builds and integrate systems that help institutional clients trade on global exchanges.

As a software developer, you will learn the highly detailed workflows of the systems you work with and consider performance, security and compliance requirements when building components that make up the platforms our clients rely on for their businesses.

Joining a global team, you will participate in code, architecture, and security reviews from colleagues in AsPac and Americas to design global systems.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a thorough understanding of our entire technology stack.
• Design and develop new features within existing platform (Java/Py).
• Contribute to on-going tech platform maintenance.
• Plan work in an agile manner with other team members.
• Write acceptance tests in coordination with QA.
• Provide L3 user support.
• Contribute to future design and architecture.
• Communicate with our platform partners.

What we are looking for:

• Highly proficient in Java development.
• Experienced in Python development.
• Knowledgeable in FIX protocol applications and integration requirements.
• Experience working with trading systems with a clear understanding of order life cycle.
• Comfortable with CI/CD and build toolchains including Maven, Gradle, Jenkins.
• Proficiency in developing for Unix/Linux based environments.
• Awareness of global markets regulatory space such as MiFID2 Transaction Reporting
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and demonstrate the capability for juggling multiple competing priorities.

Skills that will help:

• Experience with AMPS middleware.
• Experience with Trading Technologies, Ullink, Celoxica trading systems
• Experience with Agile development approach.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

UK

• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees' health and wellbeing - it's what makes us a Great Place to Work.
• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.
• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc.
• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

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.