Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer
About The Position
BNY is seeking a Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer to join its team in Boston, Massachusetts. The role provides application software development services and technical support to internal business groups. It involves building and maintaining Java/Spring Boot services and APIs, integrating software components, developing tests and automated test suites, and supporting secure, reliable, production-ready applications. The engineer will work with AI-assisted development tools and contribute AI capabilities to applications, using safeguards, validation, monitoring, and auditability. The role also includes designing efficient and secure data access, collaborating with technical leads and product partners on requirements and sprint goals, maintaining technical documentation, and contributing to CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, and release safety. BNY describes its workplace as a global financial services environment focused on technology, collaboration, and employee growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- 5–9 years of hands-on experience building software with Java, Spring, or Spring Boot.
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted coding tools and integration of AI features using responsible-use practices.
- Working knowledge of RDBMS such as Oracle or equivalent, and secure, performant data access in services.
- Experience contributing to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability.
- Experience with prompt engineering for code and tests, including verification steps and avoiding blind acceptance of generated code.
- Ability to implement AI-feature guardrails, including policy checks, content filters, PII safety, and robust prompt/response telemetry.
- Ability to design deterministic wrappers around model calls, including timeouts, retries, backoff, and caching, and to capture audit/compliance traceability.
- Thorough knowledge of frontend and backend development involving Java, NodeJS, CSS, JSON, Angular, and JavaScript.
- Proficiency in application frameworks and containerization, with broad experience in multi-platform development tools and toolkits.
- Prior lead experience selecting and implementing vendor-specific methodologies.
- Prior consulting experience with structured methodologies.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in the securities or financial services industry.
Responsibilities
- Consult with internal business groups to provide application software development services and technical support.
- Write well-designed, testable, efficient code and integrate software components into functional systems.
- Analyze, design, and develop tests and test-automation suites; create flowcharts, layouts, and documentation to address requirements and solutions.
- Maintain software functionality and currency, participate in code reviews, and apply security and privacy principles.
- Build, enhance, and troubleshoot Java/Spring Boot microservices and APIs, delivering production-ready code with strong testing.
- Use AI-assisted coding tools and practices, including prompting, code suggestions, and test generation, while ensuring code quality, security, and maintainability.
- Integrate AI application features such as inference endpoints, prompt orchestration, RAG flows, and embeddings, with guardrails, input/output validation, and auditability.
- Contribute to data-access design and performance by writing efficient queries, tuning connection pools, and implementing transactional integrity and error handling.
- Collaborate with technical leads and product partners to refine requirements, acceptance criteria, and sprint goals; maintain API contracts, ADRs, readmes, and other documentation.
- Support CI/CD pipeline tasks, including builds, tests, artifacts, and environment configurations, and contribute to automated quality gates and release safety.
- Apply safeguards to AI-enabled features, including policy checks, content filters, and PII safety, and provide telemetry of prompts and responses.
- Design deterministic wrappers around model calls using measures such as timeouts, retries, backoff, and caching, and capture traceability for audit and compliance.
- Collaborate on evaluation harnesses for AI features, including quality metrics, latency budgets, and failure modes.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Wellbeing programs and resources.
- Paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
- Potential eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award.
- 401(k) plan, subject to eligibility and applicable plan terms.
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans, subject to eligibility.
- Vacation and sick time and other paid time off benefits, dependent on the position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
