Real-Time Java Engineer – Market Data Interfaces

State Street; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Insurance coverage: medical/dental/vis

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Software Developer for Market Data Interfaces (MDI) to contribute across the MDI platform and ADP microservices. You will own real-time and batch data processing components, build scalable backend services, and advance automated testing and reliability in a large Java/cloud-native environment.

You will collaborate with product owners, QA, and platform teams in an Agile Scrum setting, joining a role that blends software design, hands-on implementation, and production

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience accepted.
• Strong professional software engineering experience in Java development.
• Proven experience building and maintaining enterprise backend systems or microservices.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, concurrency, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and service-based application development.
• Strong SQL and database experience, including troubleshooting data and query-related issues.
• Experience building automated tests at multiple layers, including unit and integration testing.
• Experience debugging complex issues across code, configuration, data, and environment boundaries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; Agile/Scrum experience.
• Ability to collaborate across development, QA, support, and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and maintain RTAPI components and related backend services for real-time and batch data processing.
• Build and support ADP microservices using event-driven and service-oriented patterns.
• Implement user stories and defect fixes meeting acceptance criteria and Definition of Done.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed services, legacy modules, and integration layers.
• Write clean, well-tested Java code with reliability and performance in mind.
• Create and maintain automated unit, integration, functional, and regression tests.
• Improve QA automation coverage for APIs, event-driven flows, and vendor/provider integrations.
• Participate in backlog grooming, estimation, sprint planning, and technical design discussions.
• Review code and test plans; contribute to build, deployment, and release readiness.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise engineering standards within the team.

Skills

Java development

Spring Boot

Backend systems

Distributed systems

SQL querying

Automated testing

Agile/Scrum

Code debugging

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/CE

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Kubernetes

Gradle

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Spring Integration

Spring Cloud Stream

SQL Server

Snowflake

JUnit 5

JaCoCo

SonarQube

Argo CD

Helm

Job description

State Street is seeking a Software Developer for Market Data Interfaces (MDI) to contribute across the MDI platform and ADP microservices. You will own real-time and batch data processing components, build scalable backend services, and advance automated testing and reliability in a large Java/cloud-native environment.

You will collaborate with product owners, QA, and platform teams in an Agile Scrum setting, joining a role that blends software design, hands-on implementation, and production