Software Engineering & Development, AVP

About the role

Global Link, a division of State Street Global Market, is a leader in providing electronic trading platforms for multiple asset classes. Our platforms are used by 19 of the top 20 largest asset managers to execute trades, as well as manage post trade settlement processes. The team develops sophisticated electronic trading systems handling hundreds of billions of dollars in AUM. The products are built on Java, Node.js and Oracle on the server side and modern web technologies on the front end. The product suite is expanding both vertically with new features and also horizontally into other businesses and new asset classes. We’re also in a major re-architecture effort in adopting microservices architecture and AWS/Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Work with the team to define high-level technical requirements and architecture for the back-end services.
• Develop new application features and enhance existing ones.
• Work with other teams for deployment, testing, training and production support.
• Integration with front-end development/services.
• Ensure that development, coding, privacy and security standards are adhered to at all times.

Requirements

• Great knowledge and experience with core Java 17+/21/25 and JEE technologies such as concurrency including but not limited to database transactions, SpringBoot 3.2+/3.5, JDBC/Hibernate/JPA.
• Strong skills with Object Oriented design and code refactoring.
• Good knowledge and experience of Agentic AI and its usages is highly desirable.
• Write clean and quality code.
• Great knowledge and experience with data modeling and database development (SQL, PL/SQL).
• Good knowledge and experience of microservices architecture and Kubernetes.
• Strong communication skills, time management and work ethics.
• Passionate about professional software development.

Skills

• Core Java knowledge and experience as well as OO design skills (preference #1).
• JEE including JMS, JDBC, SpringBoot, JPA/Hibernate, REST API design and implementation (preference #2).
• Microservices architecture and Kubernetes, Agentic AI experience (preference #3).
• Messaging (IBM MQ, RabbitMQ/Kafka), Distributed Caching and Concurrency (Hazelcast, Redis), API gateway is a big plus.

Pay

Salary Range: $90,000 - $157,500 Annual. The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location, the applicable range could differ.

Benefits

• Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
• Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages.
• Paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans).
• Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.