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State Street · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer, VP

positionBurlington, MA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
money$120K/yr - $202K/yr
date10+ years exp

State Street is one of the largest custodian banks and asset managers in the world, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer, VP. The role involves driving technical excellence, collaborating with business analysts and product managers, and providing thought leadership in product architecture within an agile scrum team.

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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

Qualification

JavaC#SQLSpring BootMicroservicesKubernetesKafkaAgile methodologyProblem solvingCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

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
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
A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience
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

Preferred

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 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
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

Benefits

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)
Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
Paid volunteer days
Matching gift program
Access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you

Company

State Street

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State Street offers a range of financial services, including investment management, research and trading, as well as asset management.
dateFounded in 1792
location
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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https://www.statestreet.com/

H1B Sponsorship

State Street has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2023 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$12.05B
2025-10-23Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2025-04-24Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2025-02-06Post Ipo Equity· $750M

Leadership Team

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Ronald O'Hanley
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Renee LaRoche-Morris
Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff to the COO; Head of CAO Services
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