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 Presidents, Software Engineers for hands-on roles designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting modern software capabilities across its wealth custody and clearing platform. Engineers may be aligned to backend services, full-stack development, API and integration engineering, platform engineering, or cloud-native application development, based on candidate experience and business priorities. The role supports a strategic initiative to build a modern, scalable, integrated platform for RIAs, broker-dealers, and wealth management firms. Engineers build and maintain digital capabilities, services, integrations, data movement, and operational workflows supporting advisor, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, onboarding, servicing, reporting, and operational needs. 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 collaborates with Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering teams, and contributes to Agile delivery, technical design, architecture discussions, engineering standards, production support, and continuous platform improvement. Standard business hours are expected, with flexibility to support 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.
- 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 databases, 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 supporting the Wealth Custody & Clearing platform.
- Build scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities supporting 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 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, 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
- Basic life insurance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- Optional additional insurance coverages
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family care responsibilities
- Employee Assistance Program
- Eligibility for annual performance-based incentive 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
- Employee networks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
