Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Assistant Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing)
About The Position
State Street’s Wealth Custody & Clearing business is hiring multiple Assistant Vice President Software Engineers for hands-on engineering roles across its technology organization. The engineers will design, develop, test, deploy, and support modern software capabilities for a wealth custody and clearing platform serving RIAs, broker-dealers, and wealth management firms. Team alignment may vary by candidate experience and business priorities, with opportunities across backend, full-stack, API and integration, platform, and cloud-native engineering. The role contributes to a strategic initiative to build a modern, scalable, and highly integrated platform. Engineers will deliver services, digital capabilities, integrations, and operational workflows supporting advisor and brokerage experiences, custody, clearing, trading, onboarding, servicing, reporting, and operations. Solutions are expected to provide scale, security, reliability, observability, auditability, data integrity, and long-term maintainability in a highly regulated, transaction-oriented environment. The position works with Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering teams, and participates in Agile delivery from estimation and planning through development, testing, release, deployment, and production support. It also includes technical design and architecture contributions, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and mentoring junior engineers. Standard business hours are expected, with flexibility needed for delivery milestones, production needs, and collaboration across locations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
- 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.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals focused 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 and commitment to resiliency, quality, documentation, and operational excellence.
- Comfort working in an enterprise technology environment where accuracy, resiliency, security, controls, documentation, and operational readiness are critical.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, observability tools, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, or containerized application deployment.
- Financial services experience; wealth management, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, fintech, advisor platforms, or transaction processing experience is a plus.
- Experience supporting systems with high availability, fault tolerance, strong data integrity, and production support expectations.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy 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 modern engineering practices, 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 expectations for performance, resiliency, security, observability, auditability, data integrity, and operational readiness.
- Participate in Agile delivery, 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 engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
- Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability, plus optional additional coverages.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
- Incentive compensation, including eligibility for annual performance-based awards, except 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.
- Employee networks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
