Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

Location: Boston, MA, United States

Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

At BNY, our culture allows us to run our company better and enables employees’ growth and success. As a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, we influence nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. Every day, our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients, driving transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide.

Recognized as a top destination for innovators , BNY is where bold ideas meet advanced technology and exceptional talent. Together, we power the future of finance – and this is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Join us and be part of something extraordinary.

We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer to join our Fund Accounting and Investor Solutions team. This role is located in Boston, MA 

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways: 

• Lead end-to-end delivery of scalable, multi-tier applications: architecture/design, development, test automation, CI/CD, deployment, and production support with real-time monitoring and alerting.

• Translate business and automation needs into robust technical solutions; collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and agile teams to define scope, prioritize work, and deliver high-quality software.

• Design and build RESTful APIs and microservices; ensure performance, reliability, observability, and secure coding practices across services and UI layers.

• Drive platform resiliency, availability, and integrity by instituting operational runbooks, on-call practices, logging/metrics/tracing, and rapid incident response.

• Champion engineering excellence: coding standards, code reviews, static analysis, test coverage, and release discipline; mentor teammates and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Integrate AI and emerging technologies (e.g., LLM APIs, prompt engineering, agentic frameworks) to enhance client and employee experiences and accelerate delivery.

• Contribute to technical strategy and roadmap; make build/buy decisions; influence patterns for event-driven systems, rules/workflows, caching, and distributed systems.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience); advanced degree preferred.

• 8+ years of professional full-stack development experience, with demonstrated strength across both backend and frontend.

• Backend: Expert-level Java 17+, 5+ years with Spring/Spring Boot; microservices architecture; REST API design and implementation.

• Frontend: Angular 14+ (or React/JavaScript) with modern UI patterns, state management, and reusable component design.

• Messaging/Eventing: Hands-on experience; Kafka preferred.

• Testing and quality: Proficient with unit and integration testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Gherkin, Cucumber); code quality/static analysis using tools like SonarQube; exposure to Veracode or Fortify. Experience in using Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).

• DevOps and CI/CD: Strong command of Git and GitLab workflows (merge requests, CI/CD integration, GitOps principles); Docker; infrastructure-as-code fundamentals; blue-green/feature-flag release strategies.

• Observability and logging: SLF4J/Log4j; log aggregation; metrics/tracing; experience with tools such as Splunk.

• Data: Familiarity with Snowflake or other NoSQL stores; solid understanding of data modeling for microservices.

• Ways of working: Agile/Scrum experience; collaborative tooling (JIRA, Confluence, Slack); strong problem-solving, communication, pair programming and team collaboration skills.

• AI assisted development: experience in using coding assistants like Github Copilot/Claude Code/Cursor/Windsurf others

Nice-to-have experience:

• Workflow and rules engines: Camunda 7/8, Drools 7/8.

• Distributed caching and cloud-native patterns: Hazelcast 5, Spring Cloud.

• Agentic frameworks: Spring AI, LangChain4J

• Python exposure for scripting, tooling, or AI integration.

• Financial services or securities industry experience.

Technologies we use:

• Java 17+, Spring/Spring Boot, Spring Cloud

• Angular 14+ (or React/JavaScript)

• Kafka

• Camunda 7/8, Drools 7/8

• Hazelcast 5

• MongoDB/NoSQL

• Git, GitLab CI/CD, Docker

• JUnit, Mockito, SonarQube; exposure to Veracode/Fortify

• SLF4J, Log4j; observability tooling (e.g., Splunk)

• AI/ML: LLM API integration, prompt engineering, agentic frameworks

• America’s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
• “Most Just Companies”, Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.Our ambition is to build the best global team ? one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve ? and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums."

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $83,000 and $195,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs. 
This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.