Director, Full-Stack Engineer
BNY Mellon3 months 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.
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About BNY Mellon
BNY Mellon is a public, New York–based global financial services company providing investment and wealth management, asset servicing, clearance, collateral, and treasury services to institutions, banks, governments, and individuals. It also offers data and investment operations software, including the Eagle platform, delivered as cloud and managed services. Founded in 1784, it is one of the world’s largest custodian banks and asset servicers.