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