Summary:   

Act as engineer 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 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 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 

Junior engineers should expect critique and guidance on designs.  Mid-level engineers will demonstrate more independence of design and development.  Senior-level engineers are expected to drive technical excellence, coach and inform application level architectures and roadmaps. 

Qualifications: 

Recommended Education: 

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

Recommended Experience: 

Experience developing event driven architectures   

Experience in Kafka strongly desired  

Experience developing cloud native services on one or more of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)  

Experience in cloud native development using Java and Spring 

Experience in Angular or React 

Experience in Snowflake 

Experience in SQL Server 

Knowledge of Kubernetes  

Experience 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  

Experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages 

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 

Agile development methodology 

Travel: 

May be required on a limited basis. 

Salary Range:

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:

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