Sr. Software Engineer II

About the position

Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street, focusing on cloud-based Front Office technology. The Full Stack Engineer will be responsible for enhancing and maintaining various modules or components within an agile scrum team. This role involves providing engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop, test, and debug large and complex software enhancements and solutions within Charles River's business and technical problem domains.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems.
• Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve software technical issues.
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages.
• Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews.
• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality product.
• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies and contribute to related test methodology frameworks.
• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high-quality end product.
• Provide troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations.
• Engage in the agile software development process by adhering to and advancing the CRD scrum methodology.
• Plan and coordinate cross-team activities to complete assignments.
• Demonstrate independence of design and development competency and mentor junior engineers.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or other technical course of study required; MS degree strongly preferred.
• 4-8 years developing event driven architectures.
• Experience in Kafka strongly desired.
• 4-8 years developing cloud native services on one or more of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
• 4-8 years in cloud native development using Java and Spring.
• Experience in Angular or React.
• Experience in Snowflake.
• Experience in SQL Server.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Experience in developing observable, operable cloud native software that horizontally scales.
• Experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management.
• Experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages.
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment.
• Knowledge of Agile development methodology.

Benefits

• Generous medical care
• Insurance and savings plans
• Flexible Work Programs
• Development programs and educational support
• Paid volunteer days
• Matching gift programs
• Access to employee networks