Principal Engineer, VP

State Street; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 202,500; Full time

Job summary

State Street seeks a leading technical contributor for its software engineering team in Burlington, MA. This role involves enhancing and maintaining Charles River IMS modules and providing engineering support across teams. Candidates with strong Java, C#, and cloud solutions experience will excel.

The position requires 10+ years in software engineering, significant financial services experience, and a B.S. in a technology-related field. A competitive salary package of $120,000 - $202,500 is offered, alongside excellent growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience in financial services for Portfolio Management or Trading is desired.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop, test, and debug software enhancements.
• Collaborate with analysts to create sustainable software solutions.
• Actively participate in the Agile scrum processes.

Skills

Java

C#

SQL

JavaScript

Agile methodologies

Kubernetes

Spring Boot Microservices

Education

B.S. in Computer Science or related field

MS degree (preferred)

Tools

Kafka

Cloud environments

Job description

Who we are looking for:

Leading technical contributor to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Why this role is important to us:

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.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence by working independently to 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
• Provide thought leadership in the design of product architecture within and beyond the team’s scope of responsibility
• Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve advanced software technical issues
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, 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 end product
• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks
• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product
• Provide expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations
• Actively assist team leaders 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
• Advise senior management on technical strategy
• Provide mentoring to junior and senior staff

Preferred Qualifications & 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

• Experience with the Spring Boot Microservices and familiarity with the service deployment in cloud environments.
• Understanding of microservice architectures and Kubernetes
• Knowledge and experience working with Kafka and message-based systems
• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience
• Ideally, a minimum of 6 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
• Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications
• Demonstrated ability to design and develop simple software solutions to business and technical problems of high complexity
• Outstanding 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

Salary Range: $120,000 - $202,500 Annual

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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