Senior Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing)
State Street3 days ago
Base Salary
$125k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and lead high-scale, low-latency backend systems supporting custody, clearing, and wealth platforms.
- Define and enforce engineering standards, architectural patterns, and system design principles across backend teams.
- Drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for distributed systems and data platforms.
- Translate complex product, data, risk, and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Mentor senior engineers and serve as a technical multiplier across the organization.
- Lead critical incident response, performance optimization, and system reliability initiatives for production platforms.
- Evaluate and introduce technologies aligned with strategic and regulatory objectives.
- Ensure platforms meet expectations for resiliency, observability, auditability, security, accuracy, and regulatory compliance.
Requirements
- 9+ years of backend software engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Principal Engineer level and influencing multiple teams or technical domains.
- Expertise designing highly available, fault-tolerant systems with strong data consistency guarantees.
- Ownership of large-scale architecture decisions and long-term system evolution in production-critical environments.
- Strong understanding of wealth management, brokerage, or financial services platforms and related concepts such as portfolio management, trading lifecycles, market data, accounts, tax optimization, and retirement products.
- Experience building systems requiring high-precision monetary calculations, full auditability, and regulatory compliance.
- Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and distributed systems; strong experience with cloud platforms and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL, distributed data stores, caching layers, event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and API design.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field; equivalent practical experience is considered.
- Working knowledge of SEC, FINRA, or GDPR is a strong plus.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include a 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance, and optional additional coverage.
- Paid time off includes vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program, incentive compensation, annual performance-based awards, and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks are available.
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About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.