The team you will be joining is a part of Charles River Development (or CRD), that became a part of State Street in 2018. CRD helps create enterprise investment management software solutions for large institutions in the areas of institutional investment, wealth management and hedge funds. Together we have created the first open front-to-back platform - State Street Alpha, that was launched in 2019.

Responsibilities:

• Drive technical excellence by working independently to 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

• Provide thought leadership in the design of product architecture within and beyond the team’s scope of responsibility

• Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve advanced 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 end product

• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks

• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product

• Provide expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations

• Actively assist team leaders 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

Preferred qualifications and education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field

Experience:

• Minimum 9+ years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience in core and enterprise java, including collections API, concurrency, multithreading, JDBC and web services.

• 6+ years of experience in designing and developing software solutions in a highly transactional, concurrent, event driven systems. Financial Trading systems experience is a huge plus.

• 6+ years of Cloud native application development experience in at least one of the cloud native platforms. Preferably, Microsoft Azure.

• 8+ years of Experience in Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka , cloud databases.

• Extensive experience in RDBMS(Oracle and SQL Server) with a solid understanding of the transactional database intricacies and expertise in writing complex and high performing SQLs.

• Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications

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

• UI development experience in C#, React, Javascript is preferred.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment and also mentor junior staff as needed.

• Great understanding of Agile development methodology and software development practices and principles.

About Charles River Development:

Charles River Investment management System in a platform that provides many Front-Office functions including Portfolio Management, Order Management and Execution, Compliance, Performance & Attribution, Modelling, Scenario Analysis, and Wealth Management.

We are part of the State Street Bank. 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 in 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 provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading, and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Discover more at StateStreet.com/careers.

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