Sr. Software Engineer II - Java, AVP

Who we are looking for:

Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components as a senior member of an agile Scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Charles River Development empowers investment firms worldwide with a cloud-based platform that streamlines and automates the investment process across asset classes. As part of State Street Alpha, we bring together data, technology, and services to help clients make confident decisions and scale with agility. Our open ecosystem and global support model enable investment professionals—from portfolio managers to private markets specialists—to navigate complexity and drive innovation.

At Charles River, we thrive on collaboration, continuous improvement, and a shared commitment to shaping the future of financial technology.

Responsibilities:

Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug medium to large software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains

Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn moderately complex business requirements into working and sustainable software

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

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

Provide informed guidance and direction in code reviews

Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product

Assist in improving development test methodologies and contribute to related test methodology frameworks

Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product

Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in customer documentation process

Actively 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

Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments

Provide mentoring to junior staff

Experience:

6 to 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting4 to 7 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired

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

Able to contribute to complex design specs in consultation with senior staff

Able to work on medium to large projects with no supervision and on more complex tasks with minimal oversight

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment

A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired

Education and preferred qualifications:

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.

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);

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