Job Description

Software Engineer I (College Hire/Entry Level)

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.

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 / Alpha Platform 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.

As a part of our talent growth strategy, CRD Engineering is partnering with leading universities in North America to develop new talent. We are looking to hire recent university graduates and graduating seniors majoring in Software Engineering or other technical field of study for the Full Stack, UX/UI, Quality and Performance Engineering roles. Junior engineers will receive coaching and guidance from senior engineers and leadership as they develop their skills and will become an integral part of an agile organization contributing to the development of the CRD/Alpha Platform.

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
• DevOps
• Database Engineering

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:

• Implementing Single Page Application (SPAs) using React and Angular with major cloud vendors (e.g., Azure)
• Building React packages and best practices, including Redux and RxJs
• NodeJS ecosystem, including NPM and/or Yarn.
• JavaScript, ReactJS and Typescript
• 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
• 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 masters degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study
• 0 2 years of professional experience or equivalent college project 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 - $115,000 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.

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