The Bank of New York Mellon
Lead Full Stack Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £39,000 - 79,000 per year
Requirements:- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus.
- Extensive 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.
- 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 ramp 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.
- AI
- Cloud
- Java
- NoSQL
- SQL
- Security
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- microservices
- Support
- Fullstack
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We are BNY, a leading global financial services company at the heart of the global financial system, influencing nearly 20% of the worlds investible assets. Our culture supports employees growth and success, and our teams harness cutting-edge AI and breakthrough technologies to collaborate with clients and deliver transformative solutions that redefine industries and uplift communities worldwide. We are recognized as a top destination for innovators, with bold ideas meeting advanced technology and exceptional talent. We offer highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy, along with flexible global resources and tools, generous paid leaves, and paid volunteer time. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and this is a full-time role.
last updated 36 week of 2026
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