Job Description

Who we are looking for:
Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of the cloud native Vendor Analytics next generation workspace . Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.
We are looking for a back-end, cloud native engineer to help build out a workspace with a cloud native, Java SpringBoot back end deployed to Kubernetes.
What you will be responsible for:
Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug medium to large software enhancements and solutions within Charles River's business and technical problem domains
Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn moderately complex business requirements into working and sustainable software
Provide thought leadership in the design of product architecture within the team's scope of responsibility
Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, SQL, JavaScript or other related software engineering languages
Provide informed guidance and direction in code reviews
Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality end product
Assist in improving development test methodologies and contribute to related test methodology frameworks
Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product
Contribute to written design and API documentation, and participate in customer documentation process
Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments
Provide mentoring to junior staff
Qualifications:
Education:
B.Tech. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. M.Tech degree strongly preferred.
Experience:
12+ years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting
Experience developing enterprise software deployed to one of the major cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google) is essential.
Experience with Java SpringBoot development in cloud native applications is mandatory.
Nice to have experience with ETL tools Talend/Kettle
Experience with GitHub is helpful
Experience with REST and PostMan is helpful
Experience with Kubernetes and Kafka is preferred.
4 to 7 years of experience using SQL including DDL and DML. Experience with Snowflake is a plus.
4 to 7 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
Able to contribute to complex design specs in consultation with senior staff
Able to work on medium to large projects with no supervision and on more complex tasks with minimal oversight
Excellent 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 strongly desired