Sr. Software Engineer II - Java/Microservices, AVP

State Street; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 157,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to multiple modules within the Charles River IMS suite. You will architect, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications, collaborating with product managers to deliver scalable solutions.

Strong focus on Java/C#, React, SQL, and observability is required. The role emphasizes agile practices, code reviews, and mentoring while ensuring high-quality, tested software for complex, transactional environments.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 5 years designing and developing solutions independently.
• Minimum 3 years in highly transactional, concurrent systems.
• 3 years cloud-native development (Azure preferred) with microservices.
• 5+ years working with Agile methodologies.
• Strong OO programming, scripting and language versatility.
• Experience with SQL Server and Postgres; Oracle/Exadata preferred.
• UI development in .NET/C#, React, JavaScript desirable.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence in architecting and developing Enterprise and Cloud-Native applications.
• Collaborate with analysts and product managers to create simple, sustainable solutions.
• Provide guidance during code reviews and design decisions.
• Develop, test, and deploy software using Java, C#, React, SQL, and JavaScript.
• Write unit and automated tests to ensure high-quality products.
• Mentor junior engineers and assist onboarding.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and coordinate cross-team activities.
• Troubleshoot large, mission-critical client implementations.

Skills

Java

C#

React

SQL

JavaScript

Azure

Spring Boot

Kafka

Kubernetes

Redis

Cloud-native

Agile development

OO programming

SQL Server / Postgres

UI development

Tools

Dynatrace

SolarWinds

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Who We Are Looking For

Senior 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.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence in architecting and developing Enterprise and Cloud‑Native applications within the Charles River’s Front Office Order and Execution Management systems (OEMs) space.
• 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 involving transactional database intensive applications with a high concurrency.
• Design, develop, test, debug and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, React, SQL, JavaScript or other related software engineering languages, while 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.
• Contribute to written design and API documentation and participate in customer documentation process.
• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies, contribute to and related test methodology frameworks.
• Develop automated tests and conduct manual tests to ensure a high‑quality 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 the scrum rituals (daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming and retrospectives).
• Actively participate in scrum rituals and drive these as required by the team lead and the team.
• Plan and coordinate cross‑team activity groups to complete assignments.
• Mentor junior engineers across the organization and help fast onboarding of new members on the team.

Experience & Qualifications

• A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible professional experience in a software engineering role including a minimum of 5 years independently designing and developing solutions.
• A minimum of 5 years in developing highly performant applications in Java programming language.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in designing and developing software solutions in a highly transactional, concurrent, event‑driven system.
• A minimum of 3 years’ cloud native application development experience in a cloud native platform (preferably Microsoft Azure) and demonstrated experience in Spring Boot microservices, Kafka/ Azure Service Bus/RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Redis and cloud databases.
• A minimum of 5 years working with an Agile development methodology.
• Demonstrated experience with object‑oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, scripting and new/advanced programming languages.
• Demonstrated experience in SQL Server and Postgres relational databases at a minimum and preferable experience in Oracle, Exadata. Experience in other DBMS like Cosmos, MongoDB, Snowflake etc is strongly desired.
• Demonstrated experience in Observability, Telemetry using tools such as Dynatrace, SolarWinds, Grafana, OpenTelemetry etc.
• Experience in financial services domain developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Order Management, Compliance, Post‑Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired.
• UI development experience in .Net/C#, React, JavaScript is strongly desired.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to manage solution complexity to ensure simple designs and workflows.
• Ability to participate and coordinate cross‑team activities.

Salary Range

$90,000 - $157,500 Annual

Benefits

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.

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work‑life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

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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