Front-End Engineer, Emerging Lead
State Street
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
Junior engineers should expect critique and guidance on designs. Mid-level engineers will demonstrate more independence of design and development. Senior-level engineers are expected to drive technical excellence, coach and inform application level architectures and roadmaps.
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.
Recommended Experience:
Experience 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 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 3 years working with an Agile development methodology
Supervisory Responsibility:
☒Individual Contributor ☐Team Lead ☐Manager of Managers
Travel:
May be required on a limited basis.