Director, Full-Stack Engineer

BNY

Director of Full-Stack Engineer role in financial services company enhancing engineering standards and delivery. Be a technical leader using AI-enabled capabilities to improve systems.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $142,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaMicroservicesNoSQLSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Multiply team impact through hands‑on technical leadership, mentorship, and setting a high engineering bar.
Build trust, share credit, and strengthen cross-functional execution.
Design and build fit‑for‑purpose architectures that balance simplicity, quality, scale, and security.
Simplify systems and workflows by removing friction, toil, and unnecessary handoffs.
Create durable reusable patterns, guardrails, and tooling that accelerate team delivery.
Quickly ramps-up in new domains, technologies, and problem spaces, adapting as needs evolve.
Apply strong engineering fundamentals across software design, data, testing, and distributed systems.
Use AI-enabled tools deliberately across design, coding, testing, review, and documentation, while keeping strong human accountability for high‑risk decisions, verification, and final quality.
Build software with a reliability‑first mindset, incorporating secure coding practices, observability, testing, and disciplined rollout/rollback strategies.
Ensure production systems meet required levels of resiliency, performance, scalability, and operability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus.
12+ years of professional software development experience, with demonstrated depth in full‑stack engineering and system / application architecture.
Prior experience in securities, financial services, or modern engineering-first organizations is a plus.
Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and the design of RESTful and streaming‑based APIs.
Hands‑on experience delivering cloud‑native solutions, including microservices, containerization, and modern deployment patterns.
Working knowledge of NoSQL and distributed data stores, selected and applied appropriately at scale.
Experience leveraging AI‑enabled capabilities, including GenAI or ML‑driven services, to enhance developer productivity, system intelligence, or customer outcomes, with a pragmatic understanding of responsible use, scalability, and integration into enterprise platforms.

Benefits

Comp & perks

highly competitive compensation
benefits
wellbeing programs
flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey
generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootSQLRESTful APIsstreaming-based APIscloud-native solutionsmicroservicescontainerizationNoSQLdistributed data stores

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcross-functional executiontrust buildingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycommunicationcollaborationaccountabilityquality assurance

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineeringadvanced degree