Software Engineer III - Quartz Core Technology

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include a strong knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

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 users 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.

Responsibilities:

• Codes solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements
• Designs, develops, and modifies architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained
• Mentors other software engineers and coach team on Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI-CD) practices and automating tool stack
• Executes story refinement, definition of requirements, and estimating work necessary to realize a story through the delivery lifecycle
• Performs spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas
• Automates manual release activities
• Designs, develops, and maintains automated test suites (integration, regression, performance)

Skills:

• Application Development
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• DevOps Practices
• Result Orientation
• Solution Delivery Process
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering

Required Qualifications:

• Must already have development experience designing and implementing database servers or large distributed caching systems.

• C++

• Python

• B-tree implementation details

• core database design concepts (transactionality, journaling, etc.)

• Distributed Database technologies

• Contributed to Database projects (such as mysql, postgress, couchDB, Hadoop, Apache Hive, etc.)

Desired Qualifications:

• Networking

• Security & RBAC

• Linux Kernal Internals

• Object vs Structured Data serialization (ProtoBuff/Pickle, etc.)