Software Engineer, CRD- New Graduate
About The Position
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. As a part of our talent growth strategy, CRD Engineering is partnering with leading universities in North America to develop new talent. We are looking to hire recent university graduates and graduating seniors majoring in Software Engineering or other technical field of study for the Full Stack, UX/UI, Quality and Performance Engineering roles. Junior engineers will receive coaching and guidance from senior engineers and leadership as they develop their skills and will become an integral part of an agile organization contributing to the development of the CRD/Alpha Platform. 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. We will match candidate’s existing knowledge and career interest to the company’s priorities to help you build knowledge and practical hands-on experience in one or several of the areas below: Full Stack Development Front-end UI/UX development DevOps Database Engineering
Requirements
- 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
- Ideally, you already have initial experience with Java, PowerShell and batch scripts
- You are familiar with concepts such as DevOps, continuous delivery, clean code, TDD and agile methods
- 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
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
- Develop practical experience with object-oriented programming (JAVA), relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
- Learn how to build an event driven architectures
- Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems.
- Design, Develop, Test, Debug, and Implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages as well as keeping abreast of emerging technologies impactful to CRDs business.
- Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality product.
- Actively participate in scrum rituals and drive these as required by the team lead and the team.
- 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, FIX, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management
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
Entry Level
