
Senior Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Vice President, Wealth Custody & Clearing
State Street
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Boston • California • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $202,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect and lead the development of high scale, low latency backend systems supporting custody, clearing, and wealth platforms
- Define and enforce engineering standards, architectural patterns, and system design principles across backend teams
- Drive the long-term technical vision and architecture for distributed systems and data platforms
- Partner with product, data, and business leaders to translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Mentor senior engineers and serve as a technical multiplier
- Lead critical incident response, performance optimization, and system reliability initiatives for production platforms
Requirements
- 9+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Principal Engineer level
- Proven expertise designing systems with high availability, fault tolerance, and strong data consistency guarantees
- Strong understanding of wealth management, brokerage, or financial services platforms
- Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and microservices based architectures
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Benefits
- health insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability
- retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
backend software engineeringsystem designhigh availabilityfault tolerancedata consistencyJavaSpring Bootmicroservicescloud platformscontainer orchestration
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical leadershipincident responseperformance optimizationsystem reliability
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree