Senior Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior Python Developer

Corporate Title:  VP/SVP

Location:  Dublin

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 a diverse and 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.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Our Central Park office in Leopardstown, boasts modern facilities based in Dublin’s premium business park. With an onsite gym and staff restaurant, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. Travel options include the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park. We also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

Role Description:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Python Developer with experience in Generative AI technologies to join our dynamic Cybersecurity Product Development Team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing and implementing AI-driven solutions that drive innovation within a well-established Cybersecurity Technology team. The ideal person will have good experience with Python, good understanding of deep learning frameworks, and hands-on knowledge of LLMs, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering. You will collaborate with various cross functional teams to develop scalable applications that redefine industry standards

Responsibilities:

•           Design, develop and maintain Python based applications with clean, efficient and scalable code.

•           Work with large-scale datasets, unstructured text and multimodal inputs.

•           Build scalable APIs and microservices.

•           Implementation of RAG for efficient inference.

•           Work closely with ML engineers, data scientists, technology infrastructure and DevOps teams.

•           Mentor junior developers on best practices and development workflows.

What we are looking for:

•           Experience working with Python.

•           Proficiency in Jupyter Notebooks for experimentation & visualization.

•           Proficiency in RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

•           Experience with Kafka , relational databases and vector databases.

•           Knowledge of containerization ( OpenShift / Kubernetes / Docker).

•           Understanding of asynchronous programming , API rate-limiting, graceful-degradation/circuit breakers, and scaling workloads.

•           Experience with monitoring and observability tools & techniques.

•           Strong experience of using at-least one NoSQL database.

Skills that will help:

•           Experience with LLMs , NLP embeddings and RAG based architectures.

•           Experience in GraphQL.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

Ireland

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

•           20 days of back-up childcare 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 etc.

•           Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

•           Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan

•           Ability to donate to charities of your choice and the bank will match your contribution

•           Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of Ireland’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 gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, membership of the Traveller community, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, civil status,  socio-economic background, family status 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.