Software Engineer – Backend Platforms, Assistant Vice President (Wealth Custody & Clearing)

About this role

Who we are looking for

State Street’s Wealth Custody & Clearing business is seeking multiple Assistant Vice Presidents, Software Engineers to join our growing Technology organization. These are hands-on engineering roles responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting modern software capabilities across our wealth custody and clearing platform.

We are seeking engineers with experience in senior backend development, software development engineering, API-driven platforms, distributed systems, cloud-enabled development, and enterprise application delivery. Successful candidates will help build resilient, scalable, secure, and production-grade technology solutions supporting advisor, brokerage, custody, clearing, trading, onboarding, servicing, and operational workflows.

This role is intended to support multiple engineering needs across the platform. Final team alignment may vary based on candidate experience and business priorities, including backend engineering, full-stack development, API and integration engineering, platform engineering, or cloud-native application development.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is part of Wealth Custody & Clearing, a strategic growth initiative focused on building a modern, scalable, and highly integrated platform for RIAs, broker-dealers, and wealth management firms. Software Engineers are critical to delivering the digital capabilities, services, integrations, and operational workflows required to support a highly regulated, transaction-oriented wealth platform.

This role is important because WC&C requires strong engineering execution across core platform services, client and advisor experiences, third-party integrations, data movement, workflow automation, and production resiliency. The selected candidates will help ensure the platform is built with the right foundation for scale, security, reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability.

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