Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Assistant Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing)
State Street23 hours ago
Base Salary
$80k - $140k/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 performance, resiliency, security, observability, auditability, data integrity, and operational readiness.
- 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 promote engineering excellence, ownership, documentation, and operational readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor ’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 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 Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
- Experience with APIs, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience with cloud-enabled development, automated testing, software delivery tooling, and DevOps practices.
- Experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, observability tools, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization is preferred.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, or containerized application deployment is preferred.
- Financial services, wealth management, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, fintech, advisor platform, or transaction processing experience is preferred.
- Ability to work in an enterprise environment where accuracy, resiliency, security, controls, documentation, and production support are critical.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include a 401K retirement savings plan with company match, life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional insurance coverage.
- Paid time off includes vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program, tax-advantaged savings plans, and eligibility for annual performance-based incentive awards.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks are available.
- Standard business hours are expected, with flexibility to support delivery milestones, production needs, and collaboration across locations.
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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.