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State Street•Burlington, MA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Senior Software Engineer (a/k/a Software Engineering & Development) at State Street Bank and Trust Company in Burlington, MA. This role involves providing engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support and development teams, and contributing to the enhancement and maintenance of Charles River Investment Management Suite (IMS) modules, components, and related applications as part of an agile scrum team. The position requires implementing user stories, debugging defects, writing unit and functional automation, contributing to customer success by understanding their use of CRD products and the FinTech market, and continually improving technical skills. The engineer will take ownership of product quality (code, test, documentation), support backlog grooming, identify blocking issues, collaborate across scrum teams, and acquire knowledge of technology trends and industry innovations. Responsibilities also include providing feedback in retrospectives, taking ownership of significant software or functional areas, engaging in future planning, writing design and test plans, performing reviews, identifying technical debt, defining tasks for user stories, managing risks to sprint commitments, mentoring new hires, and applying technology trends to products. Hybrid remote telecommuting is permitted.

Requirements

Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field; plus 3 years of experience in professional software engineering. OR Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field; plus 5 years of experience in professional software engineering.
Proven ability with object-oriented programming, data structures, compiler or interpreter technologies, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
Demonstrated ability to work on small to medium sized projects with moderate supervision
Demonstrated solid 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
Demonstrated solid ability with Java, SQL, scripting languages, and/or distributed computing
Demonstrated solid ability with Snowflake and Snowflake performance optimization
Demonstrated solid knowledge in financial application development
Demonstrated solid knowledge in Azure or AWS cloud platform
Demonstrated solid experience in developing single page UI applications using REACT or Angular framework
Demonstrated solid experience in UI testing frameworks like Jasmine
Demonstrated solid experience in handling large data sets in UI with high performance

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 areas
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

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
eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks