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 utilising 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.We are growing our European presence and building teams in Dublin, Ireland and Krakow or Gdansk, Poland Summary: Act as Full Stack engineer, and a development manager, 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.
Drive technical excellence, coaching, informing application-level architectures and roadmaps.
Mentoring and guiding on designs to Junior and Senior Engineers.
Qualifications: Recommended Education: B.S. degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or other technical course of study required.
MS degree strongly preferred.
Recommended Experience: Experience of over 5 years in cloud native development using Java (Spring experience desired) Experience of over 8 years developing event driven architectures Experience in React preferred, experience in Web development required Experience in Kafka strongly desired Experience in SQL with DDL and DML (SQL Server a bonus) Knowledge of Snowflake Knowledge of Kubernetes Demonstrated ability 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, Private Markets strongly desired 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 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 provide investment servicing, data