Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Assistant Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing)

State Street•Boston, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

State Street’s Wealth Custody & Clearing business is seeking multiple Assistant Vice Presidents, Software Engineers to join our growing Technology organization. These are hands-on engineering roles responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting modern software capabilities across our wealth custody and clearing platform. We are seeking engineers with experience in senior backend development, software development engineering, API-driven platforms, distributed systems, cloud-enabled development, and enterprise application delivery. Successful candidates will help build resilient, scalable, secure, and production-grade technology solutions supporting advisor, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, onboarding, servicing, and operational workflows. This role is intended to support multiple engineering needs across the platform. Final team alignment may vary based on candidate experience and business priorities, including backend engineering, full-stack development, API and integration engineering, platform engineering, or cloud-native application development. The team you will be joining is part of Wealth Custody & Clearing, a strategic growth initiative focused on building a modern, scalable, and highly integrated platform for RIAs, broker-dealers, and wealth management firms. Software Engineers are critical to delivering the digital capabilities, services, integrations, and operational workflows required to support a highly regulated, transaction-oriented wealth platform. This role is important because WC&C requires strong engineering execution across core platform services, client and advisor experiences, third-party integrations, data movement, workflow automation, and production resiliency. The selected candidates will help ensure the platform is built with the right foundation for scale, security, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability.

Requirements

Strong software engineering fundamentals with a focus on secure, scalable, maintainable, and well-tested solutions
Hands-on experience building production-grade applications, backend services, APIs, or distributed systems in complex enterprise environments
Ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and deliver practical solutions in a highly regulated operating environment
Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Comfort navigating ambiguity, solving complex problems, and contributing to a fast-moving platform buildout
Ownership mindset with a commitment to resiliency, quality, documentation, and operational excellence
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent professional experience will also be considered
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
Experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, observability tools, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization preferred
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, or containerized application deployment preferred
Financial services experience preferred; wealth management, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, fintech, advisor platforms, or transaction processing experience considered a plus
Candidates should be comfortable working in an enterprise technology environment where accuracy, resiliency, security, controls, documentation, and operational readiness are critical.
Experience supporting systems with high availability, fault tolerance, strong data integrity, and production support expectations is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and deploy enterprise-grade software solutions supporting the Wealth Custody & Clearing platform
Build scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities that support custody, clearing, onboarding, trading, servicing, reporting, and advisor workflows
Develop cloud-enabled and API-first solutions using modern engineering practices, secure coding standards, and strong software design principles
Partner with Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into high-quality technical solutions
Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture discussions, engineering standards, and platform delivery decisions
Support integration initiatives with external fintech, custody, clearing, broker-dealer, and market infrastructure providers
Ensure solutions meet expectations for performance, resiliency, security, observability, auditability, data integrity, and operational readiness
Participate in Agile delivery processes, including estimation, sprint planning, development, testing, release readiness, deployment, and production support
Troubleshoot complex technical issues, support root cause analysis, and contribute to continuous platform improvement
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement

Benefits

our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
access to our Employee Assistance Program
incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks