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.
Our vision is to be the world’s leading investment platform, shaping the future of the industry and driving new levels of technology-led innovation, resiliency, efficiency and growth for investors and the people they serve.
CRD Engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilizing 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.
CRD is currently expanding the capabilities of our products in several new areas. The Senior Software Engineer will work on developing new Java middle tier/server-side functionality for the system. This position will involve new product development and requires financial software experience or alternatively a strong understanding and interest in financial markets.
This is an opportunity to work within a very strong, senior level engineering team and help to develop challenging new products in the financial space.
This job is a hybrid role with at 3 days in the office per week, which you can perform from our offices in Krakow and Gdansk.
responsibilities :
Contribute as a Sr. Individual Contributor within a team of top engineers using Agile methodology
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, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages as well as keeping abreast of emerging technologies impactful to CRDs business
Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews
Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality product.
Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks
Conduct manual tests to ensure a high-quality product.
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.
Mentoring and guiding on designs to Junior Engineers
Demonstrate more independence of design and development.
4-8 years of experience in Java development - preferably in the FinTech (financial markets) area
B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred.
Experience in front-end web development, ideally using React
Experience in development of cloud native services (Azure experience a bonus)
Knowledge of SQL and experience with RBDMS
Experience with Kafka, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Tomcat will be a strong asset
offered :
Permanent contract from day one
Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off and others)
Gold medical package for employees and their families (partner and children)
Premium life insurance package and private pension plan
Cafeteria system
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
Possibility of work in rapidly growing global organization on interesting projects
benefits :
private medical care
sharing the costs of foreign language classes
sharing the costs of professional training & courses
