Senior Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Vice President, Wealth Custody & Clearing

State Street

Senior Software Engineer providing technical leadership in backend projects for State Street's wealth management platforms. Leading development and architecture of scalable systems for high volume financial transactions.

Posted 4/16/2026full-timeBoston • California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $202,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKubernetesMicroservicesSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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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