Principal Software Engineer

Summary:
Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components as a principal member of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities
• Development and Testing
o Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug medium to large software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains
o Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript or other related software programming languages
o Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems
o Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product
o Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product
o Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in customer documentation process
o Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews
o Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve advanced software technical issues
• Technical Support
o Provide expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations
o Actively assist team leaders in the agile software development process by adhering to and advancing the CRD scrum methodology, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Collaboration
o Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments
o Advise on technical strategy and architecture
o Provide mentoring to other members of the team

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:
• 10+ years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting
• 5 to 8 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
• Experience in core and enterprise java (JDK 17), including collections API and concurrency
• Experience in writing complex SQL queries in MS SQL Server or Oracle
• Experience in building high performant applications.
• Experience in Kafka, MQ Integration is required
• Experience in XML, XSL, XSD, XSLT, Kettle, ETL is required
• Experience in XML Messaging, FIX, SWIFT, Post Trade processing is a plus
• Ability to work independently, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and adapt quickly to changes
• Strong track record of building high performance, production quality software on schedule
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), good interpersonal skills, ability to gather and understand business requirements
• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment.
• A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology

Salary Range:

$110,000 - $185,000 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.