Director, Full-Stack Engineer

BNY Mellon

$120K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; advanced degree a plus.
  • 12+ years of professional software development experience, especially in full-stack engineering and system/application architecture.
  • Experience in securities, financial services, or engineering-first organizations preferred.
  • Strong proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, SQL, and RESTful/streaming APIs.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native solutions, including microservices and containerization.
  • Working knowledge of NoSQL and distributed data stores at scale.
  • Experience with AI-enabled tools like GenAI or ML-driven services for enhancing productivity.

Responsibilities

  • Multiply team impact through technical leadership, mentorship, and high engineering standards.
  • Build trust and enhance cross-functional collaboration.
  • Design and implement architectures that prioritize simplicity, quality, scalability, and security.
  • Simplify workflows by reducing friction, toil, and unnecessary handoffs.
  • Create reusable patterns and tools that speed up team delivery.
  • Quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and evolving needs.
  • Apply strong fundamentals across software design, data, testing, and distributed systems.
  • Employ AI-enabled tools throughout the software lifecycle while maintaining accountability for final outputs.
  • Develop software with a focus on reliability, security, and disciplined rollout practices.
  • Ensure production systems meet performance, scalability, and resiliency standards.

Benefits

  • Access to highly competitive compensation and benefits packages.
  • Flexible global resources to support personal and professional needs.
  • Programs focused on health, resilience, and financial goals.
  • Generous paid leave policies, including volunteer time, to support life moments.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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 Pittsburgh, PA.

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.

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