Senior Engineer

at  Bank of America

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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!

JOB DESCRIPTION

Quartz has for over a decade revolutionized the way Global Markets does business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Quartz has been the primary platform for pricing trades, managing positions, and computing risk exposure. Thousands of developers are using the highly-agile platform to deliver applications to tens of thousands of end users. As a part of the Quartz team, you will contribute to the technology that will re define the future of our business.
The Quartz Platform team is now starting a core refresh of the platform to modernize with capabilities required to meet our user’s future needs. We are looking to add an experienced software engineers with solid CS knowledge and a track record of delivery on at least one large project in a relevant area (in a PhD or prior job). This person needs to be able to own and independently implement one part of a complex project, while collaborating effectively with the owners of the other parts.
The qualified applicant will become part of Quartz Core Platform’s database team building and re-architecting a globally eventually consistent object/data store with ~20 Petabytes of data, ~30 Billion Transactions written daily and ~6 Million concurrent connections world-wide.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience designing and implementing database servers or large distributed caching systems
• Contributed to Database projects (such as mysql, postgress, couchDB, Hadup, Apache Hive, etc.)
• Proficient knowledge in multiple coding languages with the focus on C++ and Python
• Core database design concepts (transactionality, journaling, etc.)
• Distributed Database technologies
• B-tree implementation details

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Networking
• Security & RBAC
• Linux Kernal Internals
• Object vs Structured Data serialization (ProtoBuff/Pickle, etc.)

Please refer the Job description for details