
Full Stack Software Engineer, Vice President – Corporate Functions Technology
State Street
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Quincy • Massachusetts • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $125,000 - $215,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as a hands-on lead engineer, owning the design and implementation of complex full stack features across front-end, back-end, APIs, and data layers
- Lead technical design and solution architecture for key initiatives, translating functional requirements into scalable, maintainable systems
- Build high-quality user interfaces using component-driven architectures and modern state management, with strong attention to usability, accessibility, and performance
- Design and implement secure, resilient backend services and RESTful APIs that support enterprise workflows and AI-enabled user journeys
- Set and reinforce engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability through design reviews and code reviews
- Design and implement cloud-native architectures, leveraging containerization, resiliency patterns, horizontal scalability, and performance optimization
- Build, own, and evolve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and release controls to enable rapid yet governed delivery
- Ensure production systems meet enterprise expectations for availability, reliability, observability, and operational resilience
- Own troubleshooting and resolution of complex issues across the full stack, leading root cause analysis and driving durable fixes
- Champion best practices for monitoring, alerting, logging, and cost awareness in cloud environments
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities into applications in close collaboration with AI and data teams, embedding them directly into user workflows
- Implement evaluation controls, telemetry, and safe failure modes for AI-enabled features, including human-in-the-loop review checkpoints where appropriate
- Design and integrate with databases and enterprise data platforms, including SQL/NoSQL systems and lakehouse technologies (e.g., Databricks)
- Embed security, privacy, and compliance requirements into system design and implementation from the ground up
- Enforce secure coding practices, identity and access controls, audit logging and data protection standards
- Partner with risk, security, and compliance stakeholders to ensure solutions meet regulatory and internal policy requirements in a regulated environment
- Collaborate closely with product owners, audit stakeholders, designers, AI teams, data engineers and platform partners to deliver production-ready solutions
- Help shape technical roadmaps, influence prioritization of technical debt, and drive continuous improvement across the engineering lifecycle
- Lead by example in adopting and promoting modern engineering practices, tools, and patterns.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; Master’s degree preferred
- 7+ years of experience delivering enterprise full stack web applications and APIs in cloud environments, with ownership of production systems
- Experience operating in a senior or lead engineer capacity, driving technical design decisions and mentoring other engineers
- Proficiency in React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Strong experience building backend services and RESTful APIs using Node.js, with exposure to Python and/or Java frameworks
- Solid knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, data modeling, and efficient data access patterns
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure, including compute, storage, messaging, and observability services
- Experience with container platforms such as Kubernetes or managed container services
- Strong DevOps experience, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and release management
- Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into applications via APIs, orchestration, evaluation gating, and monitoring
- Proficiency with Git and collaborative development practices, including code reviews.
Benefits
- our 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 our 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
full stack developmentRESTful APIsReactJavaScriptTypeScriptHTML5CSS3Node.jsSQLNoSQL
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationtechnical designcontinuous improvementattention to usabilityattention to performanceattention to security
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Software EngineeringMaster’s degree in related field