Summary:

Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components as a senior member of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities:

• Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug small to medium software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains

• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn business requirements of moderate complexity into working and sustainable software

• Participate in the design of product architecture within the team’s scope of responsibility

• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages

• Provide thoughtful insight and suggestions in code reviews

• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product

• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product

• Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in customer documentation process

• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives

• Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments

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:

• 4 to 7 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting

• 2 to 5 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired

• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages

• Able to contribute to design specs with some assistance from senior staff

• Able to work on small to medium projects with little to no supervision and on more complex tasks with moderate oversight

• Very good written and verbal communication skills

• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment

• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired

Supervisory Responsibility:

☒ Individual Contributor ☐ Team Lead ☐ Manager of Managers