Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Assistant Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing)
State Street · Quincy, MA · 2 mo ago
$90k–$158k/yrFull-time
About the role
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.
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
Qualifications
- 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
- Hands-on experience delivering business-critical applications in Agile software development environments
- 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
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, or containerized application deployment
- Financial services experience preferred; wealth management, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, fintech, advisor platforms, or transaction processing experience considered a plus