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

State Street • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

State Street’s Wealth Custody & Clearing business is hiring multiple Assistant Vice Presidents, Software Engineers for its Technology organization. These hands-on roles design, develop, test, deploy, and support modern software capabilities across a wealth custody and clearing platform. Engineers build resilient, scalable, secure, production-grade solutions for advisor, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, onboarding, servicing, and operational workflows. Depending on experience and business priorities, team alignment may include backend engineering, full-stack development, API and integration engineering, platform engineering, or cloud-native application development.

The team is part of a strategic growth initiative to build a modern, scalable, integrated platform for RIAs, broker-dealers, and wealth management firms. Engineers contribute to platform services, client and advisor experiences, third-party integrations, data movement, workflow automation, and production resiliency, with attention to scale, security, reliability, observability, and maintainability.

The role involves working with Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering teams in a regulated enterprise environment. Standard business hours are expected, with flexibility to support delivery milestones, production needs, and collaboration across locations. The annual salary range is $80,000–$140,000, subject to location. State Street offers a comprehensive benefits program, including retirement savings, insurance coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, and incentive compensation eligibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 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 environment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, solve complex problems, and contribute 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 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, API-first solutions using modern engineering practices, secure coding standards, and sound software design principles.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering 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 promote engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
• Basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional insurance coverage.
• Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family-care responsibilities.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
• Eligibility for annual performance-based incentive awards, with exclusions for 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, and employee networks.

What This Job Offers

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