Senior Software Engineer- Team Leader, hybrid, Assistant Vice President

Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street, building a cloud-based investment platform. This role is for a Senior Java Software Engineer and Team Lead to enhance and maintain CRD modules.

• Analyze, design, develop, test, and debug large and complex software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains including modifications to core frameworks and other primary facilities critical to system operation
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems
• Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve software technical issues
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java and being open to learn and utilize needed languages
• Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews
• Provide troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations
• Engage 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
• Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments
• Demonstrate more independence of design and development
• Mentor and guide Junior Engineers
• Lead a team of engineers both from technical and managerial perspective

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering or other technical course of study; MS degree strongly preferred
• At least 7 years of experience with full lifecycle of project development for Java applications from similar industry and 2 years of experience in leading the team
• Strong skills in core Java, server-side Java technologies, and Spring frameworks using Agile methodologies and SQL database
• Experience in backend technologies like Kafka, Microservices
• At least 1-2 years of experience leading a team of 6-10 people (including managing employee through whole life cycle from hiring to offboarding)
• Nice to have: Experience/understanding of Kubernetes and experience with a cloud platform (Azure, etc.)
• Nice to have: Experience with Snowflake
• Nice to have: Experience with object-oriented programming, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
• Nice to have: Experience with frontend technologies like React, Angular
• Nice to have: Experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management

• Permanent contract from day one
• Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off)
• Gold Medical Package for employees and their families (partner and children)
• Premium life insurance package and private pension plan
• Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programs
• Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice
• Variety of well-being programs
• Additional benefits available depending on the seniority of the role