Front-End Engineer - Officer

Who we are:

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.

Our vision is to be the world’s leading investment platform, shaping the future of the industry and driving new levels of technology-led innovation, resiliency, efficiency and growth for investors and the people they serve.

CRD 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.

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.

Summary:

Act as a front-end engineer responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Alpha/Charles River Development modules or components of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve software technical issues
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, React 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 troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations
• Engage 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.
• Mentoring and guidance on designs to junior engineers.
• Demonstrate more independence of design and development.

Qualifications:

Recommended 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.

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Recommended Experience:

• Experience of 5-7 yrs with Single Page Application (SPAs) using React and Angular.
• Experience with prominent React packages and best practices, including Redux and RxJs.
• Knowledge of JavaScript with extensive experience in ReactJS and Typescript
• Familiarity with test standard and popular supporting frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, and Jasmine
• Familiarity with the NodeJS ecosystem, including NPM and/or Yarn.
• Experience of 4-8 years delivering single page applications in cloud-based deployments with major cloud vendors (Azure preferred)
• 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
• Experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired
• 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 environment
• A minimum of 4 years working with an Agile development methodology.
• Employees are expected to work from the office per country-specific company guidelines.

Supervisory Responsibility:

☒Individual Contributor              ☐Team Lead                ☐Manager of Managers

Travel:

May be required on a limited basis.