Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street. Together with State Street’s Middle and Back-office services, Charles River’s cloud-based Front Office technology forms the foundation of the State Street Alpha® Platform, the first front-to-back solution in the industry.
Industry momentum has seen CRD grow over 135% in headcount over the last 5 years, and we continue to grow. As a digital innovation leader, we invest into our solutions, processes, systems, and talent.
CRD / Alpha® Platform Engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilising next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kafka, Snowflake, etc.
Position Summary:
Be an integral part of an agile organization and contribute to the development of one or more CRD/Alpha Platform modules. Junior engineers will receive coaching and guidance from senior engineers and leadership as they develop their skills and contribute to the team.
Responsibilities:
- Under guidance of senior engineers contribute to analysis, design, development, testing, and debugging large and complex software enhancements and solutions within the CRD/Alpha Platform domains including modifications to core frameworks and other primary facilities critical to system operation
- Collaborate with Business Analysts to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems
- Participate in the agile software development process including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
- Participate in on-the-job and formal trainings to develop your career
What would give you a hands-on experience and growth in the following technologies:
- Implementing Single Page Application (SPAs) using React and Angular with major cloud vendors (e.g., Azure)
- Building React packages and best practices, including Redux and RxJs
- NodeJS ecosystem, including NPM and/or Yarn.
- JavaScript, ReactJS and Typescript
- Develop practical experience with object-oriented programming (JAVA and/or C#), compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
- Learn how to build an event driven architectures
- Build knowledge of Kafka and /or Kubernetes
- Learn to develop cloud native services on one or more of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) and using Java and Spring
- Learn Snowflake and SQL Server
- Learn to develop observable, operable cloud native software that horizontally scales and is aligned with the modern architectural principles
- Develop business acumen in Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management
- Build knowledge of test standard and popular supporting frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, and Jasmine
Qualifications:
- B.S. or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study
- 0 – 2 years of professional experience or equivalent college project experience
- Interest and passion about building high quality software in FinTech space
- I Ideally, you already have initial experience with Java, PowerShell and batch scripts and have knowledge of C#
- You have worked with tools like Jira and Confluence
- You are eager to learn and challenge status quo and are characterized by a very analytical and solution-oriented way of thinking
- You have effective written and verbal communication
- Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment
- Our employees are expected to work from the office 2-3 times per week
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