Principal Engineer, VP

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

Mentor and coach senior engineers, elevating team capabilities and fostering a culture of technical excellence

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 CRD’s 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 and contribute to related test methodology frameworks

Establish and uphold quality standards across the development lifecycle to ensure a high quality end product

Provide expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations

Lead and advance the agile software development process, championing the CRD scrum methodology including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives

Plan and coordinate cross-team activities to complete assignments

Preferred qualifications and education:

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

Experience:

Experience with the Spring Boot Microservices and familiarity with the service deployment in cloud environments.

Understanding of microservice architectures and Kubernetes Knowledge and experience working with Kafka and message-based systemsA minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience

Ideally, a 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

Deep expertise in object-oriented programming, relational databases (RDBMS), low-latency and high-performance systems, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software engineering practices

Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery and improve code quality

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

Demonstrated ability to design and develop simple 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 environmentA minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology

Salary Range:$120,000 - $202,500 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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