Senior Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

BNY Mellon • Pittsburgh, PA

5d • $120,000 - $225,000

About The Position

BNY is seeking a Senior Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer to provide technical leadership and amplify team impact. The role involves raising engineering standards, accelerating delivery, applying sound technical judgment to complex problems, providing thought leadership, and coaching others. The engineer will use AI-enabled capabilities to improve how work gets done while ensuring shipped solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and valuable. The position is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or New York, New York.

The successful candidate will build and guide software and architectures, create reusable engineering patterns and tooling, simplify systems and workflows, and support reliable, high-performing production systems. The role applies engineering fundamentals across software design, data, testing, and distributed systems, and uses AI-enabled tools across the development lifecycle while maintaining human accountability for high-risk decisions and quality.

BNY describes itself as a leading global financial services company and highlights a culture of innovation, collaboration, employee growth, and competitive compensation and benefits. Compensation may include an annual discretionary incentive award, and eligible employees may participate in company-sponsored benefit plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 10–14 years of experience in software development.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and the design of RESTful and streaming-based APIs.
• Hands-on experience delivering cloud-native solutions, including microservices, containerization, and modern deployment patterns.
• Working knowledge of NoSQL and distributed data stores, selected and applied appropriately at scale.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled capabilities, including GenAI or ML-driven services, to improve developer productivity, system intelligence, or customer outcomes, with a pragmatic understanding of responsible use, scalability, and enterprise-platform integration.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the securities or financial services industry.

Responsibilities

• Multiply team impact through hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, and setting a high engineering bar.
• Build trust, share credit, and strengthen cross-functional execution.
• Design and build fit-for-purpose architectures that balance simplicity, quality, scale, and security.
• Simplify systems and workflows by removing friction, toil, and unnecessary handoffs.
• Create durable reusable patterns, guardrails, and tooling that accelerate team delivery.
• Ramp up quickly in new domains, technologies, and problem spaces, adapting as needs evolve.
• Apply strong engineering fundamentals across software design, data, testing, and distributed systems.
• Use AI-enabled tools across design, coding, testing, review, and documentation while maintaining human accountability for high-risk decisions, verification, and final quality.
• Build software with a reliability-first mindset, incorporating secure coding practices, observability, testing, and disciplined rollout and rollback strategies.
• Ensure production systems meet required levels of resiliency, performance, scalability, and operability.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Benefits and wellbeing programs.
• Paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
• Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award.
• Eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan.
• Eligible employees may participate in company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans.
• Eligible employees may receive paid time off, including vacation and sick time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior