Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

BNY Mellon

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
  • 5-9 years of experience in full-stack engineering roles.
  • Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, and Angular development.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure AKS and cloud-native technologies.
  • Proven system design skills for fault tolerance and scalability in distributed systems.
  • Strong knowledge of secure coding and NIST 800-53 controls.
  • Experience with streaming platforms like Kafka and CI/CD toolchains.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build full stack applications for high availability and transaction throughput.
  • Apply AI-first development practices to enhance productivity and software quality.
  • Engineer cloud-native services using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
  • Implement systems for high resilience and throughput, including circuit breakers and retries.
  • Ensure security-by-design aligned with compliance standards and best practices.
  • Develop event-driven architectures and RESTful APIs while ensuring performance metrics are met.
  • Collaborate across teams to deliver features, participate in technical reviews, and optimize performance.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive compensation and benefits.
  • Access to flexible global resources and tools for personal growth.
  • Focus on health and personal resilience with supportive wellness programs.
  • Generous paid leaves including time for volunteering.
  • Eligibility for 401(k) plan and various company-sponsored insurance plans.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

We9re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer to join our Structured Debt team. This role is in Pittsburgh, PA

You9ll build mission-critical applications that power high availability, high transaction throughput workflows, and meet stringent security controls-delivering modern experiences to our clients. This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong emphasis on system design, AI-first development practices, and deploying resilient services in Azure AKS.

In this role, you9ll have the opportunity to impact on our organization in the following ways:
  • Design, build, and operate full stack solutions using Java, Spring Boot microservices, and Angular-optimized for scale, resiliency, and low latency.
  • Apply AI-first coding practices to accelerate development: leverage AI-assisted code generation, test creation, refactoring, and documentation while maintaining software quality and security.
  • Engineer cloud-native services for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including configuration, deployments, scaling, and observability.
  • Implement robust system designs for high availability and high throughput: circuit breakers, back-pressure, idempotency, retries, and graceful degradation.
  • Ensure security-by-design aligned to NIST 800-53 controls, including secure coding practices, secrets management, and compliance guardrails.
  • Build streaming and event-driven integrations and RESTful APIs; instrument services for performance (APM, logs, metrics) and reliability (SLOs, error budgets).
  • Collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams to deliver features end-to-end; participate in code reviews, technical design sessions, and performance tuning.
  • Drive quality with test-driven development, automated testing (unit, contract, integration), and CI/CD pipelines.

To be successful in this role, we9re seeking the following:
  • Bachelor9s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field. - Advanced degree preferred. **EXPERIENCE:** - Typically 5-9 years of experience.
  • Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and Angular front-end development.
  • Hands-on experience deploying and running workloads in Azure AKS; familiarity with containers, orchestration, and cloud networking.
  • Proven system design skills for distributed systems, including fault tolerance, scalability patterns, and resilience engineering.
  • Strong understanding of DevSecOps, secure coding, and applying NIST 800-53 controls.
  • Experience with Kafka or other event/streaming platforms; solid grasp of performance optimization and profiling.
  • TDD/automated testing mindset; working knowledge of CI/CD toolchains.
  • Curiosity, ownership, and a client-obsessed approach to delivery.


About the Team

At BNY, our culture speaks for itself, check out the latest BNY news at BNY Newsroom & BNY LinkedIn

Here9s a few of our recent awards:
  • America9s Most Innovative Companies, Fortune, 2025
  • World9s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2025
  • "Most Just Companies", Just Capital and CNBC, 2025

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 life9s 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 assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee9s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an "at will" position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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