Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Assistant Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing)
State Street16 days ago
Base Salary
$90k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and support enterprise-grade software solutions for the Wealth Custody & Clearing platform.
- Build scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities for custody, clearing, onboarding, trading, servicing, reporting, and advisor workflows.
- Develop cloud-enabled and API-first solutions using secure coding standards and sound software design principles.
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture discussions, engineering standards, and platform delivery decisions.
- Support integrations with external fintech, custody, clearing, broker-dealer, and market infrastructure providers.
- Ensure solutions meet performance, resiliency, security, observability, auditability, data integrity, and operational-readiness expectations.
- Participate in estimation, sprint planning, development, testing, release readiness, deployment, and production support.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues, support root cause analysis, and improve the platform continuously.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering excellence, ownership, documentation, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 7 years of software engineering, backend engineering, or application development experience with progressively increasing responsibility.
- Experience delivering business-critical applications in Agile software development environments.
- Hands-on experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
- Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience with cloud-enabled development, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, automated testing, and modern software delivery tooling.
- Preferred experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, observability tools, monitoring, logging, performance optimization, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and containerized application deployment.
- Financial services experience, including wealth management, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, fintech, advisor platforms, or transaction processing, is preferred.
- Ability to work with high-availability, fault-tolerant systems requiring strong data integrity and production support.
Benefits
- Hybrid work is required, with the hiring location confirmed based on business need, role alignment, and approved requisition details.
- Standard business hours are expected, with flexibility for delivery milestones, production needs, and collaboration across locations.
- Benefits include a 401K retirement savings plan with company match; life, medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance; paid time off; an Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation; and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- The company provides 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.