TIAA
New York, NY, USA
Key Responsibilities and Duties Own the technical architecture and evolution of our FastAPI and RabbitMQ based backend services, making design decisions that balance speed of delivery with long-term maintainability across portfolio rebalancing, trade management, and advisor workflow systems Drive the design of APIs and data contracts consumed by both our internal Vue/Nuxt advisor portal and external integrations, ensuring they are reliable, well-documented, and built for scale Lead the integration strategy across our data layer - PostgreSQL databases, MongoDB/DocumentDB, real-time market data feeds, and custodial data services - identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and reliability gaps Architect and improve our AWS infrastructure (CDK, ECS Fargate, serverless components) with a focus on operational excellence, cost efficiency, and deployment confidence Establish and enforce engineering standards for testing, observability, incident...

