AVP Software Engineer - Wealth Platform & APIs

State Street Corporation; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Health insurance

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

State Street Corporation is seeking multiple Assistant Vice Presidents, Software Engineers in Dallas to design, build, test, and deploy enterprise-grade software for wealth custody and clearing. You will develop scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities, with a strong emphasis on secure, resilient, and observable systems across onboarding, trading, servicing, and reporting workflows.

You will collaborate with product, architecture, risk, compliance, and operations teams,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; equivalent professional experience will be considered.
• 7+ years of software engineering, backend engineering, or application development experience with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Experience delivering business-critical applications in Agile software development environments.
• Hands-on experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar technologies.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience with cloud-enabled development, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, automated testing, and modern software delivery tooling.
• Experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, observability tools, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization preferred.
• Financial services experience preferred; wealth management, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, fintech, advisor platforms, or transaction processing experience considered a plus.
• Additional requirements: multiple engineers across senior backend and software development disciplines; capable of aligning to backend services, full-stack, API/integration, platform, or cloud-native development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and deploy enterprise-grade software solutions for the Wealth Custody & Clearing platform.
• Build scalable backend services, APIs, integrations, and platform capabilities for custody, onboarding, trading, and advisor workflows.
• Develop cloud-enabled and API-first solutions using secure coding standards and modern design principles.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture discussions, engineering standards, and platform delivery decisions.
• Support integration initiatives with external fintech, custody, clearing, broker-dealer, and market infrastructure providers.
• Ensure solutions meet performance, resiliency, security, observability, data integrity, and operational readiness.
• Participate in Agile processes: estimation, sprint planning, development, testing, release readiness, deployment, and production support.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence and ownership.

Skills

Backend engineering

API development

Distributed systems

Cloud-enabled

Java/Kotlin

Python

RESTful APIs

DevOps

CI/CD

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

State Street Corporation is seeking multiple Assistant Vice Presidents, Software Engineers in Dallas to design, build, test, and deploy enterprise-grade software for wealth custody and clearing. You will develop scalable backend services, APIs, and platform capabilities, with a strong emphasis on secure, resilient, and observable systems across onboarding, trading, servicing, and reporting workflows.

You will collaborate with product, architecture, risk, compliance, and operations teams,