Senior Software Engineer - Java, AVP

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Strong experience in enterprise application architecture and platform-based solution design.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex platforms into production, not just define architecture.
• Drive technical excellence by analyzing, designing, developing, testing, and debugging large and complex software enhancements and solutions within Charles River's business and technical problem domains.
• 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.
• Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews.
• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality end product.
• Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in customer documentation process.
• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies and contribute to related test methodology frameworks.
• Provide expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations.

Preferred Qualifications and 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 with the Spring Boot Microservices and service deployment in cloud environments.
• Minimum of 13 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience.
• Ideally, a minimum of 8 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.
• Experience in the development of cloud-native services (Azure experience a bonus).
• Experience of microservice architectures and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Kafka and message-based systems.
• Experience with Snowflake will be a strong asset.
• Experience with Postgres SQL is preferred.
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications.
• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology.

About Charles River Development

Work, Live and Grow

• Competitive and comprehensive benefits packages, details vary in location.
• Generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks.
• Access to flexible Work Program.
• Wealth of development programs and educational support.