Senior Software Engineer II

Summary:

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:

• 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, C#, 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:

Recommended 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:

• 6 to 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting
• 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

Supervisory Responsibility:

☒Individual Contributor ☐Team Lead ☐Manager of Managers

Travel:

May be required on a limited basis

Working Arrangements: 

Employees are expected to work from the office 4 days a week. 

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