Principal Software Engineer, VP
State Street6 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $203k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a principal technical authority for key initiatives and core platform modules.
- Define system architecture, design standards, engineering practices, and long-term technical strategy.
- Design, develop, test, debug, and implement large-scale, multi-tier enterprise systems.
- Lead complex enhancements and resolve high-risk, business-critical technical challenges across teams.
- Drive code quality, performance, scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and technical debt remediation.
- Establish design review, code review, technical governance, automated testing, observability, and operational excellence practices.
- Coordinate technical initiatives across multiple scrum teams and communicate recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advise senior management on technical risk, platform direction, and investment priorities.
- Mentor engineers, support talent development, and influence hiring and onboarding strategies.
- Troubleshoot high-visibility client deployments and act as an escalation point for critical production or client issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
- 10–12+ years of commercial software development experience, including senior or principal-level roles.
- Expert-level object-oriented design and programming proficiency in Java, C++, or C#.
- Strong database and data-modeling skills with experience in Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and/or data warehouse platforms.
- Deep understanding of cloud-based and distributed systems and a track record of delivering high-performance production systems at scale.
- Experience designing, building, and evolving large-scale cloud-native enterprise platforms.
- Strong problem-solving, systems-thinking, performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience capabilities.
- Compiler design, optimizers, solvers, code generation, or semantic analysis experience is a strong plus.
- Exposure to machine learning, AI, or cognitive computing is a plus.
- Strong financial-services background, such as portfolio management, trading, compliance, IBOR, or wealth management, is strongly preferred.
- Excellent written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills, with the ability to lead through influence and manage ambiguity.
- Significant experience developing and supporting commercial enterprise software for non-technical customers.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and in regulated, mission-critical financial-services settings.
Benefits
- Salary range is $120,000–$202,500 annually, with the applicable range potentially varying by primary work location.
- Retirement savings plan with company match and insurance coverage including life, medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability.
- Paid time off, vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family-care support.
- Employee Assistance Program and eligibility for annual performance-based incentive awards.
- Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
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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.