Full Stack Engineer, Officer

Job Description

Full stack Developer, Officer

Job Description

Who we are:

Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street. Together with State Street's Middle and Back-office services, Charles River's cloud-based Front Office technology forms the foundation of the State Street Alpha Platform, the first front-to-back solution in the industry.

Our vision is to be the world's leading investment platform, shaping the future of the industry and driving new levels of technology-led innovation, resiliency, efficiency and growth for investors and the people they serve.

CRD Engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilizing next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kafka, Snowflake, etc.

Industry momentum has seen CRD grow over 135% in headcount over the last 5 years, and we continue to grow. As a digital innovation leader, we invest into our solutions, processes, systems, and talent.

Summary:

Act as Full Stack engineer responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Alpha/Charles River Development modules or components of an agile scrum team. Provide 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 including modifications to core frameworks and other primary facilities critical to system operation

- 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 as well as keeping abreast of emerging technologies impactful to CRDs business.

- 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 contribute to and related test methodology frameworks

- Conduct manual tests to ensure a high-quality 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, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives

- Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments.

- Mentoring and guiding on designs from Senior Engineers.

Qualifications:

Recommended Education:

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

Recommended Experience:

- 8+ years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting

- Experience of 2-4 years developing event drivenarchitectures

- Experience in Kafka strongly desired

- Experience of 2-4 years developing cloud native services on one or more of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)

- Experience of 2-4 years in cloud native development using Java and Spring is mandatory

- Experience in Angular or React

- Experience in Snowflake is preferred.

- Experience in SQL Server is preferred.

- 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

- Demonstrated ability to design and develop software solutions to business and technical problems of high complexity

- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

- Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment

- Knowledge of Agile development methodology

- Employees are expected to work from the office 4 days a week.

Travel:

May be required on a limited basis.