Principal Software Engineer, VP

Summary:

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.

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 highly scalable cloud-based solution. As part of this effort, engineers will work on some of the following technologies:
Azure, React, Kubernetes, Kafka, event driven architecture, and micro-services.

Responsibilities:

Drive technical excellence by working independently to 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

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 to resolve advanced 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 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 all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives

Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments

Advise senior management on technical strategy

Provide mentoring to junior and senior staff

Qualifications:

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.

Experience:

A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experienceA minimum of 6 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

Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications

Demonstrated ability to design and develop…