Senior Software Engineer 2

Who we are looking for:

Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of the CRD cloud native Alpha platform as a senior member of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Why this role is important to us:

This position will contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of the CRD cloud native Alpha platform as a senior member of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

This position will be a full stack developer working on projects of rich functionality, web services, writing test and performance automation, improving system scalability, and performance. The team maintains a highly collaborative work environment.

What we value:

The company is migrating its architecture to a cloud-based solutions. As part of this effort, working on some the following technologies: Azure, gRPC, React, Angular, Kubernetes, Kafka, and micro-services.

What you will be responsible for:

• Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug small to medium software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn business requirements of moderate complexity into working and sustainable software.
• Participate in the design of product architecture within the team’s scope of responsibility.
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages.
• Provide thoughtful insight and suggestions in code reviews.
• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality product.
• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high-quality product.
• Contribute to written design and API documentation and participate in customer documentation process.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments.
   

Education & preferred qualifications:

B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred.

• 4 to 7 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting
• Experience developing event driven architectures.
• Experience in Kafka strongly desired
• Experience developing cloud native services on one the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
• Experience in cloud native development using Java is required.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes is desired.
• 2 to 5 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages.
• Able to contribute to design specs with some assistance from senior staff.
• Able to work on small to medium projects with little to no supervision and on more complex tasks with moderate oversight.
• Very good written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment.
• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired

30 trillion dollars in assets are managed on Charles River Investment Management System (CRIMS) by 38,000+ professionals in 30+ countries. The portfolio management platform offers a saleable, state-of-the-art set of functions, enabling various user types from Portfolio Managers to high powered institutional Traders to construct and manage large and diverse portfolios.  The platform services both Institutional and Wealth Management clients. The risk team provides critical insights to the portfolio manager to make better investment decisions and that optimize return while reducing overall volatility.

About State Street:

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We prov