Securities Settlements Engineering Developer, Vice President

Description

This Vice President role leads engineering and technical transformation across the settlements technology stack for international and domestic settlements.

The company needs a hands-on software engineer who can modernise engineering practices inside the teams. You will design, build and maintain scalable, high-quality software, holding a high bar for engineering standards such as trunk-based development, test automation, security and modern ways of working. The work calls for deep system design skill, hands-on coding and strong problem solving to produce resilient, high-performing and secure applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain robust, scalable, high-performance applications.
• Adopt trunk-based development so changes integrate continuously and ship quickly.
• Write clean, maintainable, testable code that follows SOLID principles and sound design practice.
• Keep unit test coverage high, using test-driven development (TDD) and behaviour-driven development (BDD).
• Write code yourself, and contribute through code reviews and refactoring that keep standards high.
• Lead the move to modern ways of working, including Agile, DevOps and CI/CD.
• Promote automated testing, infrastructure as code and continuous monitoring to improve reliability.
• Review code for readability, performance and security, and apply BDD, TDD and unit testing to protect quality.
• Apply secure coding practices, run vulnerability assessments and make sure standards are met.
• Work in agile teams, following DevOps principles and building a habit of continuous delivery and improvement.
• Work with architects, product owners and other teams to design scalable, distributed systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and encourage excellence and ongoing learning.
• Work with DevOps teams to improve deployments, observability and production resilience.
• Lead technical discussions, write design documentation and advise on modern architectures.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building software in financial services.
• Skill in Kotlin, Python and Java.
• Experience designing real-time, high-throughput systems and tuning them for performance.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience with event-driven and messaging systems such as Kafka or Solace.
• Experience with low-latency, high-performance computing.
• Experience building highly available, fault-tolerant systems.
• Experience with SQL (Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Strong hands-on coding in Java, Python or another modern language.
• Deep expertise in system design and microservices.
• Experience with trunk-based development, feature flags and progressive delivery.
• Working knowledge of TDD and BDD, with an automation-first approach that delivers high test coverage and reliability.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience with code reviews, vulnerability assessments and secure coding.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Preferred: Advanced data and AI integration.
• Preferred: AI and ML.
• Preferred: Cloud and DevOps.
• Preferred: the company Engineering Excellence Standards.
• Good-to-have: experience with event-driven architecture and distributed systems.
• Good-to-have: knowledge of performance tuning, observability and production monitoring.
• Good-to-have: familiarity with Agile frameworks and modern ways of working in product development.

Conditions

Full-time position based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.

Base salary range is $142,320.00 to $213,480.00.

Eligible employees may also receive discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards.

Applications close on Nov 06, 2026.

Automated processing, including AI, is used only to match skills to roles. People make and check all hiring decisions, and no decision is made automatically.

Equal opportunity applies to all candidates.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Life, accident and disability insurance.
• Wellness programs.
• Paid vacation, paid sick leave and paid holidays.
• Benefit availability varies by jurisdiction, job level and date of hire.