Director, Full-Stack Engineer

Job Description

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.

BNY is seeking Engineers who amplify team impact through technical leadership and force-multiplier behaviors. In this role, you will elevate those around you by raising engineering standards, accelerating delivery, applying sound technical judgment to complex problems, providing thought leadership and coaching others. You will use AI-enabled capabilities to improve how work gets done, while ensuring what ships is secure, scalable, resilient and truly worth building. This role is located in New York, NY.

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

• Multiply team impact through hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, and setting a high engineering bar.
• Build trust, share credit, and strengthen cross-functional execution.
• Design and build fit-for-purpose architectures that balance simplicity, quality, scale, and security.
• Simplify systems and workflows by removing friction, toil, and unnecessary handoffs.
• Create durable reusable patterns, guardrails, and tooling that accelerate team delivery.
• Quickly ramps-up in new domains, technologies, and problem spaces, adapting as needs evolve.
• Apply strong engineering fundamentals across software design, data, testing, and distributed systems.
• Use AI-enabled tools deliberately across design, coding, testing, review, and documentation, while keeping strong human accountability for high-risk decisions, verification, and final quality.
• Build software with a reliability-first mindset, incorporating secure coding practices, observability, testing, and disciplined rollout/rollback strategies.
• Ensure production systems meet required levels of resiliency, performance, scalability, and operability.

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

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus.
• 12+ years of professional software development experience, with demonstrated depth in full-stack engineering and system/application architecture.
• Prior experience in securities, financial services, or modern engineering-first organizations is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and the design of RESTful and streaming-based APIs.
• Hands-on experience delivering cloud-native solutions, including microservices, containerization, and modern deployment patterns.
• Working knowledge of NoSQL and distributed data stores, selected and applied appropriately at scale.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled capabilities, including GenAI or ML-driven services, to enhance developer productivity, system intelligence, or customer outcomes, with a pragmatic understanding of responsible use, scalability, and integration into enterprise platforms.

Our Benefits and Rewards: BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $142,000 and $250,000 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 (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.