Senior Software Engineer & Team Manager

State Street is a global financial services company that provides investment management, risk management, and performance services to institutional investors worldwide.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15+ years of software-engineering experience, including experience leading teams responsible for enterprise-scale production systems.
• Strong technical expertise in Java, distributed systems, and database design.
• Demonstrated success designing and delivering scalable, reliable, high-quality platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, and modern software-engineering practices.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, develop, and lead strong technical teams.
• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance strategic technical direction with pragmatic delivery.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing data platforms or other large-scale, data-intensive systems.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices and the thoughtful application of AI within software delivery.
• Experience in financial services.

• Own the technical direction and successful delivery of significant Alpha Data Platform capabilities.
• Lead execution across the complete software development lifecycle, from architecture and design through deployment and production support.
• Partner with Product Management to translate business and client priorities into a clear, executable engineering roadmap.
• Design scalable, maintainable solutions for complex enterprise data and platform requirements.
• Guide architectural decisions that improve scalability, performance, resilience, security, and operability.
• Provide technical leadership on complex system-design decisions and critical engineering challenges.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering team by hiring, mentoring, and growing engineers and team leads.
• Promote engineering excellence through modern development practices, automation, testing, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across engineering, architecture, client delivery, and support teams on strategic initiatives and critical client needs.

State Street is an Equal Opportunity Employer, considering all qualified applicants without regard to various protected characteristics as per applicable law. Salary is determined based on multiple objective and non-discriminatory criteria. The minimum salary applies specifically to the primary location; it may differ if working elsewhere.