Senior Full-Stack Tech Lead | Java/Spring & React

State Street Corp; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street Corp in Burlington, MA seeks a senior hands-on software engineer to lead the Charles River Self Service Portal (SSP). You will guide architecture, design, and delivery while mentoring engineers across teams.

You will build full-stack solutions with Java, Spring Boot, React, REST APIs, and SQL, in a cloud-based microservices environment on Azure with AKS. Strong collaboration and leadership are required.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of progressive software engineering experience with enterprise solutions.
• Hands-on in full-stack web apps with Java/Spring Boot and React.
• Experience designing REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Cloud experience with Azure, containers, Kubernetes/AKS, and cloud-native services.
• Relational databases and SQL (SQL Server or PostgreSQL).
• Experience with automated testing (unit, integration, API, UI).
• CI/CD and modern DevOps practices with automated pipelines.
• Observability and production troubleshooting (Dynatrace, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Strong problem solving and communication for technical decisions and risks.
• 5+ years in Agile environments and financial services familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for SSP engineering, including architecture, design, development, code reviews, testing, and delivery.
• Design, develop, test, and implement full-stack solutions using Java, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, and SQL.
• Guide cloud-hosted, microservices-based applications for scale, resilience, security, and observability.
• Direct SSP alignment with State Street standards, architecture, and platform strategy.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, QA, architects, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Lead technical analysis for complex issues across apps, integrations, databases, and cloud components.
• Promote engineering practices via reviews, automated tests, CI/CD, and observability.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and delivery activities; mentor distributed engineers.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and ongoing knowledge sharing.
• Help grow team's technical capabilities through coaching and hands-on collaboration.
• Maintain strong external and internal communications about risks and trade-offs.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

React

TypeScript

REST APIs

SQL

Cloud

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

MS degree preferred

Tools

Dynatrace

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Job description

State Street Corp in Burlington, MA seeks a senior hands-on software engineer to lead the Charles River Self Service Portal (SSP). You will guide architecture, design, and delivery while mentoring engineers across teams.

You will build full-stack solutions with Java, Spring Boot, React, REST APIs, and SQL, in a cloud-based microservices environment on Azure with AKS. Strong collaboration and leadership are required.