Java API Developer, Assistant Vice President
State StreetResponsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Java backend services and APIs for digital asset product flows.
- Build API integrations supporting client onboarding, application-to-service connectivity, and centralized integration hubs and secure gateways.
- Implement API contracts that meet enterprise security, documentation, publishing, versioning, and backward-compatibility standards.
- Partner with product, architecture, and security stakeholders on policy-aware integration patterns.
- Contribute to digital asset data interfaces and event-stream integrations for reporting, analytics, and operational workflows.
- Build and maintain unit and integration tests and enforce quality gates for regulated processing services.
- Deploy and operate containerized Java microservices on Kubernetes, including production troubleshooting.
- Support observability, incident triage, performance tuning, production readiness, and resilience improvements.
- Collaborate across teams on integrations between digital asset services and traditional custody, cash, and fund-accounting platforms.
Requirements
- Strong experience building Java backend APIs in financial services, ideally involving digital assets, custody, cash, fund services, or regulated platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Spring components for web services, security, and data access.
- Experience deploying and operating containerized Java microservices on Kubernetes, including Deployments, Services, Secrets, resource requests and limits, and cluster troubleshooting.
- Experience with relational databases such as Oracle and ORM or data-access patterns.
- Ability to design and implement versioned, backward-compatible, well-documented API contracts.
- Strong understanding of security-first API engineering, authentication and authorization, secure integration paths, and least-privilege practices.
- Experience delivering production-grade services through code reviews, automated testing, and operational-readiness practices.
- Ability to work effectively with multi-location engineering teams.
- Experience with digital asset components such as tokenization, wallet management, smart contract management, or custody workflows is preferred.
- Familiarity with traditional-and-digital integration models, standards-based messaging, hybrid architectures, event and data distribution patterns, and digital asset ecosystem concepts is preferred.
- Exposure to Node.js for frontend support or lightweight backend-for-frontend services is preferred.
Benefits
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks are offered.
- The posting describes an equal-opportunity workplace.
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About State Street
At State Street, we deliver leading investment platforms, data, expertise, and solutions that accelerate performance and better decision making. With over 200 years of global financial leadership, we equip institutional investors through a comprehensive suite of capabilities: Investment Services: Integrated front-to-back solutions across custody, accounting, and operations. Investment Management: Index and active strategies from one of the world’s largest asset managers. Markets: Multi-asset trading, FX solutions, and data-driven research to enhance portfolio value. Who We Are • 50,000+ employees worldwide • Active in 100+ markets • #1 in ETF servicing What You’ll Find Here • Executive perspectives and thought leadership • Timely market commentary and macro insights • Our views on investment operations, ETFs, private markets, and digital finance • Stories reflecting our culture, values and commitment to diversity and inclusion