
Director, Full-Stack Engineer
BNY Mellon1 month ago
Responsibilities
- Own a major platform area while contributing across backend services, frontend tooling, AI orchestration, smart contracts, or policy logic.
- Design, build, and operate end-to-end components from technical discovery through production deployment.
- Architect event-driven systems using Kafka, containerized deployments, and resilient distributed-system patterns.
- Lead technical discovery and rapid prototyping to validate new capabilities.
- Establish coding standards, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices.
- Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and promote technical rigor.
- Collaborate with product, operations, and compliance teams to translate business requirements into working systems.
- Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs to senior leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong record of shipping production systems.
- Deep proficiency in at least one of backend services, frontend UIs, AI/ML systems, blockchain, or data infrastructure, with the ability to work across other layers.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and API design.
- Experience with some combination of Java, Python, React, Kafka, Oracle, Snowflake, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Fluency with AI-assisted software development using coding agents such as Codex and Claude.
- Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, or AI/ML integration is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with blockchain, smart contracts, or on-chain transaction systems is a strong plus.
- Financial services or capital markets experience is a plus.
- Ability to prioritize building, shipping, prototypes, working code, and measurable results.