Senior Software Engineer I, AVP

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Summary :

Charles River Development empowers investment firms worldwide with a cloud-based platform that streamlines and automates the investment process across asset classes. As part of State Street Alpha®, we bring together data, technology, and services to help clients make confident decisions and scale with agility. Our open ecosystem and global support model enable investment professionals-from portfolio managers to private markets specialists-to navigate complexity and drive innovation. At Charles River, we thrive on collaboration, continuous improvement, and a shared commitment to shaping the future of financial technology.

The platform services both Institutional and Wealth Management clients. The Wealth Management platform provides significant growth potential for Charles River. The team sits in the heart of this solution set providing critical support for the platform.

This position will become a critical contributor and take ownership of designing and implementing these complex wealth and investment management workflows leveraged by some of the largest participants in the industry.

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.

The company is migrating its architecture to a highly scalable cloud-based solution. As part of this effort, engineers will work on some of the following technologies : Azure, React, Kubernetes, Kafka, event driven architecture, and micro-services.

Responsibilities :

Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug small to large 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, C#, 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

Mentor junior developers and develop best practices for other team members.

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

Required Qualifications

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

6 to 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience.

3+ years of development experience with Java and web-based JavaScript / TypeScript applications.

Effective written and verbal communication skills

Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment

Preferred Qualifications

Proficient with React and related libraries.

Demonstrated experience with object-oriented programming, operating systems, REST APIs, event-based systems, automated testing, scripting.

Previous experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Postgres, or Oracle.

Cloud computing experience such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud.

Previous experience in investment management services such as developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired

Salary Range :

$90,000 - $142,500 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Job Application Disclosure :

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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