Who we are looking for:
Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of the cloud native Vendor Analytics next generation workspace . Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.
We are looking for a back-end, cloud native engineer to help build out a workspace with a cloud native, Java SpringBoot back end deployed to Kubernetes.
What you will be responsible for:
- 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
- Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn moderately complex business requirements into working and sustainable software
- Provide thought leadership in the design of product architecture within the team’s scope of responsibility
- Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, SQL, JavaScript or other related software engineering languages
- Provide informed guidance and direction in code reviews
- Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality end product
- Assist in improving development test methodologies and contribute to related test methodology frameworks
- Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product
- Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in customer documentation process
- 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
- Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments
- Provide mentoring to junior staff
Qualifications:
Education:
B.Tech. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. M.Tech degree strongly preferred.
Experience:
- 12+ years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting
- Experience developing enterprise software deployed to one of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google) is essential.
- Experience with Java SpringBoot development in cloud native applications is mandatory.
- Nice to have experience with ETL tools Talend/Kettle
- Experience with GitHub is helpful
- Experience with REST and PostMan is helpful
- Experience with Kubernetes and Kafka is preferred.
- 4 to 7 years of experience using SQL including DDL and DML. Experience with Snowflake is a plus.
- 4 to 7 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired
- Authoritative experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
- Able to contribute to complex design specs in consultation with senior staff
- Able to work on medium to large projects with no supervision and on more complex tasks with minimal oversight
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment
- A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired