Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Senior Software Engineer (State Street Bank and Trust Company; Burlington, MA): Will provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River and will contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River Investment Management Suite (IMS) modules, components and related applications as a member of an agile scrum team. Specific duties of the position include: Implementing user stories that meets the Definition of Done and the user story acceptance criteria without producing new technical debt; Debugging and fix defects that meets the Definition of Done and the user story acceptance criteria without producing new technical debt; Writing unit and functional automation for the user story; Contributing to customer success; Understanding customers’ use of CRD products and the FinTech market; Continually improving technical skills; Taking ownership of the quality of the product (code + test + doc); Supporting backlog grooming by participating in user story sizing; Identifying blocking issues impacting team commitments and obstacles slowing them down; Actively collaborating across scrum teams; Continually improving team efficiency; Acquiring knowledge of technology trends and industry innovations; Providing feedback in retrospect to improve team productivity, processes, and practices; Taking ownership of a body of significant software or a functional area; Engaging in future planning and improvements; Writing design and test plans; Performing reviews of code, test, test plan, and design plans; Identifying technical debt; Participating in defining the tasks that are required for each User Story to meet the Definition of Done; Identifying and manages risks to the sprint commitments; Mentoring new hires; and Applying technology trends and industry innovations to our products. Hybrid-remote telecommuting permitted pursuant to Company policy.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field; plus 3 years of experience in professional software engineering using Java.
- Alternatively, the Employer will accept a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field; plus 5 years of experience in professional software engineering using Java.
- 3 years of experience and solid ability working with each of the following: Java, JavaScript, SQL, scripting languages, and distributed computing.
- Proven ability with object-oriented programming, data structures, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), and new/advanced programming languages
- Demonstrated ability to work on small to medium sized projects with moderate supervision
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment
- Demonstrated ability working with an Agile development methodology
Responsibilities
- Implementing user stories that meets the Definition of Done and the user story acceptance criteria without producing new technical debt
- Debugging and fix defects that meets the Definition of Done and the user story acceptance criteria without producing new technical debt
- Writing unit and functional automation for the user story
- Contributing to customer success
- Understanding customers’ use of CRD products and the FinTech market
- Continually improving technical skills
- Taking ownership of the quality of the product (code + test + doc)
- Supporting backlog grooming by participating in user story sizing
- Identifying blocking issues impacting team commitments and obstacles slowing them down
- Actively collaborating across scrum teams
- Continually improving team efficiency
- Acquiring knowledge of technology trends and industry innovations
- Providing feedback in retrospect to improve team productivity, processes, and practices
- Taking ownership of a body of significant software or a functional area
- Engaging in future planning and improvements
- Writing design and test plans
- Performing reviews of code, test, test plan, and design plans
- Identifying technical debt
- Participating in defining the tasks that are required for each User Story to meet the Definition of Done
- Identifying and manages risks to the sprint commitments
- Mentoring new hires
- Applying technology trends and industry innovations to our products
Benefits
- our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- access to our Employee Assistance Program
- incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
- eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
- inclusive development opportunities
- flexible work-life support
- paid volunteer days
- vibrant employee networks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
