Job Specifications
Who We Are
Charles River Development empowers investment firms worldwide with a cloud-based platform that streamlines and automates the investment process across asset classes. As part of State Street Alpha®, we bring together data, technology, and services to help clients make confident decisions and scale with agility. Our open ecosystem and global support model enable investment professionals—from portfolio managers to private markets specialists—to navigate complexity and drive innovation. At Charles River, we thrive on collaboration, continuous improvement, and a shared commitment to shaping the future of financial technology.
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 will receive coaching and guidance from senior engineers and leadership as they develop their skills and contribute to the team.
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 Several Of The Areas Below
Full Stack Development
Front-end UI/UX development
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 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 would give you a hands-on experience and growth in the following technologies:
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
Develop web based applications with ReactJS
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
1 – 5 years of professional experience
Interest and passion about building high quality software in FinTech space
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 environment
Our employees are expected to work from our office locations per country-specific guidelines
Salary Range
$70,000 - $118,750 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.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
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About State Street
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About the Company
At State Street, we partner with institutional investors all over the world to provide comprehensive financial services, including investment management, investment research and trading, and investment servicing. Whether you are an asset manager, asset owner, alternative asset manager, insurance company, pension fund or official institution, you can rely on us to be focused on your challenges. We are committed to doing what it takes to help you perform better — now and in the future.
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