Senior Backend Architect: High-Scale Financial Platforms

State Street; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical, dental, vision

Long-term disability

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation

Job summary

State Street’s Wealth Custody & Clearing team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to architect and lead the development of high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in a cloud-native environment. You will influence architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams, partnering with product, data, risk, and business stakeholders to deliver financial-grade platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive incident response, and evaluate new technologies to ensure resiliency, auditability, and

Qualifications

• 9+ years backend software engineering with distributed systems experience.
• Staff/Principal level experience influencing multiple teams.
• High availability, fault tolerance, and data consistency expertise.
• Owner of large architecture decisions and long-term evolution.
• Production reliability and regulatory-compliant systems background.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead high-scale, low-latency backend systems.
• Define engineering standards and architectural patterns.
• Drive long-term vision for distributed systems and data platforms.
• Collaborate with product, data, and business leaders.
• Mentor senior engineers and improve engineering discipline.
• Lead incident response and performance optimization.
• Evaluate new technologies aligned with objectives.
• Ensure resiliency, observability, auditability, and security.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Kafka

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

MS degree preferred

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Distributed data stores

Caching

Job description

State Street’s Wealth Custody & Clearing team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to architect and lead the development of high-scale, low-latency distributed systems in a cloud-native environment. You will influence architecture and engineering standards across multiple teams, partnering with product, data, risk, and business stakeholders to deliver financial-grade platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive incident response, and evaluate new technologies to ensure resiliency, auditability, and