Java Software Engineer Jobs in Massachusetts

Who we are looking for:

Senior technical contributor to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities:

• Drive technical excellence in architecting and developing Enterprise and Cloud-Native applications within the Charles River’s Front Office Order and Execution Management systems (OEMS) space.
• 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 involving transactional database intensive applications with a high concurrency.
• Design, Develop, Test, Debug, and Implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, React, 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.
• Contribute to written design and API documentation and participate in customer documentation process.
• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks.
• Develop automate test and conduct manual tests to ensure a high-quality 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 the scrum rituals (daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives).
• Actively participate in scrum rituals and drive these as required by the team lead and the team.
• Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments.
• Mentor junior engineers across the organization and help fast onboarding of new members on the team.

Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience in a software engineering role including a minimum of 5 years independently designing/developing solutions.
• A minimum of 5 years in developing highly performant applications in Java programming language.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in designing and developing software solutions in a highly transactional, concurrent, event driven system.
• A minimum of 3 years’ cloud native application development experience in a cloud native platform (preferably, Microsoft Azure) and demonstrated experience in Spring Boot Microservices, Kafka /Azure Service Bus/RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Redis and cloud databases.
• A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, scripting, and new/advanced programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience in SQL Server and Postgres relational databases at the minimum and preferable experience in Oracle, Exadata. Experience in other DBMS like Cosmos, MongoDB, Snowflake etc is strongly desired.
• Demonstrated experience in Observability, Telemetry using tools like Dynatrace, Solarwinds, Grafana, OpenTelemetry etc.
• Experience in financial services domain developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Order Management, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired.
• UI development experience in .Net/C#, React, JavaScript is strongly desired.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to manage solution complexity to ensure simple designs and workflows.
• Ability to participate and coordinate cross-team activities.

Salary Range:

$90,000 - $157,500 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.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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