Software Engineer I at State Street in Burlington, Massachusetts

Job Description:

Summary:

30 trillion dollars in assets are managed on Charles River Investment Management System (CR IMS) by 38,000+ professionals in 30+ countries. The portfolio management platform offers a saleable, state-of-the-art set of functions, enabling various user types from Portfolio Managers to high powered institutional Traders to construct and manage large and diverse portfolios. 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 cloud-based solution. As part of this effort, engineers will work on some of the following technologies: Azure, React, Kubernetes, Kafka, and micro-services.

Responsibilities:

• Perform tasks of focused scope and complexity under the direction of more senior staff including authoring classes, methods, scripts, and utility programs as well as resolving software compatibility and interface problems


• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, JavaScript, SQL, C#, or other related modern software engineering languages


• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality product

• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high-quality product


• 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

Education:

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

• 0 - 2 years of professional experience or equivalent college project experience gained through relevant internships or co-op positions


• Knowledge of object-oriented programming, data structures, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages


• Able to work on small projects of limited scope working under the supervision of a more senior team member


• Effective written and verbal communication


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

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.