Senior Software Engineer; a​/k​/a Software Engineering & Development

Senior Software Engineer (a/k/a Software Engineering & Development) (State Street Bank and Trust Company; Burlington, MA):
Will provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River and will contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River Investment Management Suite (IMS) modules, components and related applications as a member of an agile scrum team. Specific duties include:
Implementing user stories that meets the Definition of Done and the user story acceptance criteria without producing new technical debt;
Debugging and fix defects that meets the Definition of Done and the user story acceptance criteria without producing new technical debt; writing unit and functional automation for the user story;
Contributing to customer success;
Understanding customers’ use of CRD products and the Fin Tech market;
Continually improving technical skills;
Taking ownership of the quality of the product (code + test + doc);
Supporting backlog grooming by participating in user story sizing;
Identifying blocking issues impacting team commitments and obstacles slowing them down;
Actively collaborating across scrum teams;
Continually improving team efficiency;
Acquiring knowledge of technology trends and industry innovations;
Providing feedback in retrospect to improve team productivity, processes, and practices;
Taking ownership of a body of significant software or a functional areal;
Engaging in future planning and improvements;
Writing design and test plans;
Performing reviews of code, test, test plan, and design plans;
Identifying technical debt;
Participating in defining the tasks that are required for each User Story to meet the Definition of Done;
Identifying and manages risks to the sprint commitments;
Mentoring new hires; and Applying technology trends and industry innovations to our products. Hybrid remote telecommuting permitted pursuant to Company policy.

Minimum requirements:

Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field; plus 3 years of experience in professional software engineering. Alternatively, the Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field; plus 5 years of experience in professional software engineering.

Must have:
Proven ability with the following: object-oriented programming, data structures, compiler or interpreter technologies, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages;
Demonstrated ability to work on small to medium sized projects with moderate supervision;
Demonstrated solid written and verbal communication skills;
Demonstrated ability to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment;
Demonstrated ability working with an Agile development methodology;
Demonstrated solid ability with Java, SQL, scripting languages, and/or distributed computing;
Demonstrated solid ability with Snowflake and Snowflake performance optimization;
Demonstrated solid knowledge in financial application development;
Demonstrated solid knowledge in Azure or AWS cloud platform;
Demonstrated solid experience in developing single page UI applications using REACT or Angular framework;
Demonstrated solid experience in UI testing frameworks like Jasmine; and Demonstrated solid experience in handling large data sets in UI with high performance. (Unless otherwise indicated, State Street is seeking the ability in the skills listed above with no specific number of years of experience required. All experience can be gained concurrently).

Salary: $178,131 to $180,000 per year.

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. For a full overview, visit

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