Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components as a senior member of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.
Responsibilities:
1. Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug small to medium software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains
2. Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn business requirements of moderate complexity into working and sustainable software
3. Participate in the design of product architecture within the team’s scope of responsibility
4. Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages
5. Provide thoughtful insight and suggestions in code reviews
6. Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product
7. Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product
8. Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in customer documentation process
9. Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
10. Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments
Qualifications:
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.
Experience:
11. 4 to 7 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting
12. 2 to 5 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired
13. Demonstrated experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
14. Able to contribute to design specs with some assistance from senior staff
15. Able to work on small to medium projects with little to no supervision and on more complex tasks with moderate oversight
16. Very good written and verbal communication skills
17. Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment
18. A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired