Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Assistant Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing) at State Street | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | Rezi

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

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

State Street · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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

State Street · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

12 hours ago
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About the Role

State Street's Wealth Custody & Clearing business is seeking multiple Assistant Vice Presidents, Software Engineers to design, develop, test, and support modern software capabilities across its wealth custody and clearing platform. This role is critical for building resilient, scalable, secure, and production-grade technology solutions supporting various wealth management workflows.

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.
  • Develop cloud-enabled and API-first solutions using modern engineering practices.
  • Partner with Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering teams.
  • Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture discussions, and engineering standards.
  • 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.
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues and support root cause analysis.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with a focus 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.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills.
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems.
  • Ownership mindset with a commitment to resiliency, quality, documentation, and operational excellence.
  • Experience delivering business-critical applications in Agile software development environments.
  • Candidates should be comfortable working in an enterprise technology environment where accuracy, resiliency, security, controls, documentation, and operational readiness are critical.
  • Experience supporting systems with high availability, fault tolerance, strong data integrity, and production support expectations is strongly preferred.

Skills

  • Backend development
  • Software development engineering
  • API-driven platforms
  • Distributed systems
  • Cloud-enabled development
  • Enterprise application delivery
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • RESTful APIs
  • Microservices
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Enterprise integration patterns
  • Cloud-enabled development
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • DevOps practices
  • Automated testing
  • Modern software delivery tooling
  • Relational databases
  • NoSQL databases
  • Messaging platforms
  • Observability tools
  • Monitoring
  • Logging
  • Performance optimization
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud platforms
  • Containerized application deployment
  • Financial services
  • Wealth management
  • Brokerage
  • Custody
  • Clearing
  • Trading
  • Fintech
  • Advisor platforms
  • Transaction processing

Location

  • Hybrid

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Assistant Vice President
  • 7+ years of software engineering, backend engineering, or application development experience with progressively increasing responsibility

Education Level

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent professional experience will also be considered

Salary/Compensations

  • $90,000 - $157,500 Annual

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
  • Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

About the Company

  • Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability.
  • We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
  • We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential.
  • As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most.
  • Join us in shaping the future.

Equal Opportunity

  • As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.