Software Engineer

Job title: Software Engineer

Company: State Street

Job description: Who We are: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.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.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.As a part of our talent growth strategy, CRD Engineering is partnering with leading universities in Europe and is expanding in Poland to develop new talent. Our senior leaders will be hosting job fairs ininsert office name/locationin October 2024 to meet with recent university graduates and graduating seniors majoring in Software and Performance Engineering, Technical Analysis, and Technical Writing and to extend offers to join our teams to the qualified candidates.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 should expect coaching and guidance from senior engineers and leadership as they develop their skills and contribute to the team.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 and Product Managers 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

What will you learn:

• 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 many of the areas below:
• Implementing Single Page Application (SPAs) using React and Angular with major cloud vendors (e.g., Azure)
• Building React packages and best practices, including Redux and RxJs
• NodeJS ecosystem, including NPM and/or Yarn.
• JavaScript, ReactJS and Typescript
• Develop practical experience with object-oriented programming (JAVA and/or C#), compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
• Learn how to build an event driven architectures
• Build knowledge of Kafka and /or Kubernetes
• 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, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management
• Build knowledge of test standard and popular supporting frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, and Jasmine

Qualifications:

• 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
• I Ideally, you already have initial experience with Java, PowerShell and batch scripts and have knowledge of C#
• 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 environmentSalary Range: $100,000 – $160,000 AnnualThe 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.

Expected salary: $100000 – 160000 per year

Location: Burlington, ON

Job date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:41:18 GMT

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